Cover Video: Isle Royale National Park Artist-in-Residence
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Iowa PBS – Iowa Outdoors
Braidwood’s Acoustic Ecology course at Iowa Lakeside Lab was featured in a segment on Iowa Public Television’s Iowa Outdoors weekly program. [8:19]
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To the Best of our Knowledge (TTBOOK)
Capturing a symphony of time in a dawn chorus on Wisconsin Public Radio [14:55]
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WYBCX Yale Radio – Museum of Non-Visible Art Interview
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Sub_Merge @ ISEA 2024
A collaboration between Dr Diana Chester and Alex Braidwood. Sub_Merge is a space and time for active listening consistent with a meditative practice. A meditation on the collective experiences possible within and surrounding water and ice, on the liminality of water/ice as life-force in our world, and the temporal experience of water/ice as a constant…
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Aquatic Sonifcation w/ University of Nebraska-Lincoln Researchers
Four channel installation sonifying University of Nebraska-Lincoln researches’ data for the exhibition Approaching Water.
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Gallery Exhibition Soundscape Design – University of Iowa Library Main Gallery
Commissioned to compose a nature soundscape for the exhibition “It’s Been Wonderful Knowing You: Wildlife Conservation and Advocacy Through the Lens of Jay N. ‘Ding’ Darling” at the University of Iowa Main Library Gallery.
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Nature is on the Line
An interactive critical listening experience. Engage the rotary dial, hear field recordings collected around some of Iowa’s few remaining nature reserves. SOLD
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Iowa FilmScene – Sonic Observation Workshop
A sonic observation workshop at FilmScene in Iowa City following a premiere screening of the documentary film Observer.
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New Media Good Time Band
New Media Good Time Band is a performance artwork between electronic media artists and performers based out of Iowa State University/Ames, IA.
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Theatre of Vibrations
An Interactive Musical Experience by Interdisciplinary Teams of Iowa State University College of Design Students
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Sound Design: Synthetic Landscapes I @ Venice Architectural Biennale
Installation sound design for Synthetic Landscapes I by Stephanie Hankey, Michael Uwemedimo, and Jordan Weber from The Loeb Fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Design. From the project description: “Synthetic Landscapes I is grounded in the contaminated earth of the Niger Delta and the engineered soils of the Midwest.” Alex Braidwood · Sound Design for…
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Venice Architecture Biennale Canal Tour Boat Reception Performance
A live performance on a canal tour boat at the Venice Architectural Biennale reception for Harvard Graduate School of Design’s installation: Synthetic Landscapes I.
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Sub_Merge @ WFAE 2023
A multichannel sonification installation by Dr Diana Chester and Alex Braidwood with live performance by Alex Braidwood. Installed at the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology 2023 conference at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.
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Cathedral to Aquatic Sonification
An immersive sonification of water quality data at Public Space One in Iowa City.
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The Quarantine Concerts
Live stream presented by Experimental Sound Studio & pt.fwd
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Sunday MASS – Mechanism for Actualizing Speculative Soundscapes
This live performance uses the popular platform of the party DJ to explore ideas of nature sound in a new context within live events and streaming media culture. Using various synthesis and composition techniques, the overall arch of the performance is modeled after the vocalization energy and activity of a pristine dawn chorus from the…
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Listening Beyond the Edge – Isle Royale
Audio and video programmatically generated from 60+ years of Isle Royale wolf-moose research data. Part of being 2019 artist-in-residence on the island.
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Recombinant Tangibility
A live streamed sonification performance driven by Las Angeles Harbor wind and wave data. SoundPedro 2020. Originally planned as a sound art festival in Souther California. Rescheduled as a series of online performances due to the COVID-19 pandemic. View Alex Braidwood’s artist profile on the SoundPedro website.
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Isle Royale Nat’l Park – Audio Releases
Listening @ Isle Royale Nat'l Park 0804 Tobin Harbor by Alex Braidwood Info text Listening @ Isle Royale Nat'l Park 0803 Dawn Cove by Alex Braidwood Info text
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Buoy Music
Music created by sonifying water monitoring data collected from West Okoboji Lake by Iowa Lakeside Lab.
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Hear Below: Listening to Chicago Underground.
Hear Below: Listening to Chicago Underground is a free, public soundwalk to explore Chicago’s pedway system with our ears, led by Eric Leonardson, Christophe Preissing, and Alex Braidwood and his Listening Instruments. This event is part of CAA 2020
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Critical Listening in a Divergent Wilderness. Joshua Tree Nat’l Park Workshop.
Acoustic Ecology is a relatively new field emerging at the intersection of a variety of disciplines and being defined by a variety of issues. A portion of this workshop will be focused on exploring the roles acoustic ecology can play in the designing, building, and experiencing of different environments. This will allow participants to transform…
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Listening Bus Tour. Ames, IA
A Bureau of Infrastructure Tourism Listening Bus Tour in Ames, Iowa
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Acoustic Ecology @ Iowa Lakeside Lab on Iowa PBS
Throughout this course, students will explore a variety of tactics for exploring, documenting and analyzing the soundscape at various locations surrounding Lakeside Lab and beyond.
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Water Quality Xylophone
An interactive public art sculpture that sonifies nearby water quality data and allows participants to play the data on the resulting instrument.
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Based on a True Story: From Rural Northwest Iowa to Downtown Des Moines
Based on a True Story May 18 – August 11, 2018 Octagon Center for the Arts – Sweeney Gallery Sound is an important aspect of the world around us. It tells a great deal about our surroundings when we take the time to listen. Listening requires time to experience because sound requires time to exist.…
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Bureau of Infrastructure Tourism
Providing listening tours of infrastructure noise and acoustically rich non-spaces in the built environment.
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Listen Right Here: DSM. Des Moines Art Center Iowa Artist.
An urban soundscape exploration completed during my year as an Iowa Artist through the Des Moines Art Center.
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Parts Per Million [Interactive Cassettes 01]
An interactive installation exploring a years worth of Des Moines River nitrate levels in relationship to Iowa nature sounds.
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Listening Instruments Invention Workshop and Soundwalk @ the Des Moines Art Center
A listening focused design and exploration workshop for folks of all ages.
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Listening in Bogong Village Cassette
A nature sound exploration released as a cassette with digital download on Maximum Ames Records
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Heritage Listening @ Black Contemporary
A sonic exploration of unfarmed land in Iowa, installed in a dormant seed dryer located on a heritage farm.
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Solo Exhibition: Grand View University
This solo exhibition in Grand View University’s Prairie Meadow Gallery represented various works form the previous 3 years of audio recording and acoustic ecology explorations from around the world
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Buoy Music: Sonification of West Okoboji Lake Monitoring Data
Sonification of sensor data collected from the Lakeside Lab research buoy located in West Okaboji Lake.
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Listening Walk. Mt Beauty, Victoria, Australia
This listening walk was part of my time as the artist in residence at the Bogong Centre for Sound Culture and featured use of the modified headphones.
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Junction Dam. Listening at the Intersection of Nature & Community
An installation in Bogong Village’s Junction Dam exploring the impact of man on the natural environment of the Alpine National Park. Bogong Centre for Sound Culture. Victoria, Australia.
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From Memory: Liver performance of Sonified NASA Solar Data
A data-driven live performance as part of Grin City Culture Lab’s theatrical production sonifying data that NASA is collecting via two satellites orbiting the sun.
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Sonic Fictions & Sonic Forms Workshop
A workshop exploring sound recording, experimental composition, design principles, and interactive art.
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Alert Fatigue
An installation using circuit-bent smoke alarms to explore the soundscape we design through the introduction of sonic alerts and the increasing tendency to ignore them.
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Noisolation Headphones
An invention for mechanically transforming the relationship between a person and the sounds that immediately surround them.
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Synesthetic Din
An interactive trolly system invented to allow a mobile device to perform visual information from the environment by manipulating a series of noise compositions.
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See Also: Noise. Cassette Release.
A cassette containing a series of noise tracks composed entirely using found sounds from various urban environments. The collection developed as part of a research process investigating alternate methods for transforming noises from a variety of environments into something differently familiar.