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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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Yale Radio’s Museum of Non-Visible Art
Interviewed by artist, author, and Director of Praxis Center Brainard Carey for his Yale radio show about artists and their work and their practices.
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Shape Your Sound – Maestro
The legendary inventor of the first FX stomp box, Maestro, returned to the world of pedals with the launch of five new FX boxes. I was commissioned by D/CAL, a culture-driven brand agency out of Detroit, to develop a series of custom audio visualization algorithms to generated high resolution graphics from tracks produced using each…
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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, Harvard Graduate School of Design for the Venice Architectual Biennale.
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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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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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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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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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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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Cathedral to Aquatic Sonification
An immersive sonification of water quality data at Public Space One in Iowa City.
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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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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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Listening in Bogong Village Cassette
A nature sound exploration released as a cassette with digital download on Maximum Ames Records.
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{Sunday} MASS – Mechanism for Actualizing Speculative Soundscapes
This live performance series uses the popular platform of the party DJ to explore ideas of nature sound in a different context within live events and streaming media culture.
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Sub_Merge @ WFAE
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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Sub_Merge @ ISEA 2024
A multi-channel immersive sonification installation created using antarctic ice monitoring data and water monitoring data from a midwest lake in the US.
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Isle Royale Nat’l Park – Audio Releases
A selection of recordings during my time as artist-in-resident on Isle Royale Nat’l Park
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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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Buoy Music
Music created by sonifying water monitoring data collected from West Okoboji Lake by Iowa Lakeside Lab.
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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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The Quarantine Concerts
Live stream presented by Experimental Sound Studio & pt.fwd
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Recombinant Tangibility
A sonification performance driven by Los Angeles Harbor wind and wave data streamed live for the online sound art festival SoundPedro.
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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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Noisolation Headphones
An invention for mechanically transforming the relationship between a person and the sounds that immediately surround them.
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See Also: Noise. Cassette Release.
This cassette of noise compositions developed from my urban field recordings developed as part of my research investigating alternate methods for engaging with noise.
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Based on a True Story: From Rural Northwest Iowa to Downtown Des Moines
This exhibition provides a space for pause, for reflection, for a slowing down. Each visit is a unique experience because the audio is generated in real-time by regionally significant data.
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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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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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Bureau of Infrastructure Tourism
Providing listening tours of infrastructure noise and acoustically rich non-spaces in the built environment.
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Listening Bus Tour. Ames, IA
A Bureau of Infrastructure Tourism Listening Bus Tour in Ames, Iowa
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Critical Listening in a Divergent Wilderness. Joshua Tree Nat’l Park Workshop.
An active listening walk and listening map generation workshop as part of the FIELDWORKS design-build festival in Southern California.
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Hear Below: Listening to Chicago Underground.
A public soundwalk and listening instrument exploration in Chicago’s pedway system.
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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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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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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 my audio recording and acoustic ecology explorations from around the world.
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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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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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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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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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From Memory: Live 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.