Echoes Between Us
World Listening Day Outdoor Concert and SOUNDwalk
By Corinne Alice In Wonderland
July 18, 2025, 7:00 pm
rain or shine
Warbler's Roost, 3785D Eagle Lake Road, South River, Ontario.
Tickets $15, Free with Weekend Accommodation Pass ($225) or Event Pass ($65)
World Listening Day Outdoor Concert and SOUNDwalk
By Corinne Alice In Wonderland
July 18, 2025, 7:00 pm
rain or shine
Warbler's Roost, 3785D Eagle Lake Road, South River, Ontario.
Tickets $15, Free with Weekend Accommodation Pass ($225) or Event Pass ($65)
Echoes Between Us is an immersive outdoor experience in two parts created by Corrine Alice, in Wonderland. She is an interdisciplinary artist based in the Almaguin Highlands. The performance will begin with a guided soundwalk inviting participants into deep listening, attuning to the layered soundscape of Warbler’s Roost. After the walk, she will give a solo performance using live looping, voice, and other instruments in intuitive response to the environment. The sounds will rise and fall in conversation with the natural world. This piece explores connection between breath and bird call, silence and song, artist and audience. At its heart, it’s an invitation to remember that the land is always speaking, if we learn to listen. The concert is the first event in a weekend long celebration of World Listening Day.
Here is a video of the performance component.
Here is a video of the performance component.
Sound Map of the Housatonic River
World Listening Day Indoor Concert
By Annea Lockwood
July 19, 2025, 7:00 pm
Warbler's Roost, 3785D Eagle Lake Road, South River, Ontario.
Tickets $15, Free with Weekend Accommodation Pass ($225) or Event Pass ($65)
This indoor multi-loudspeaker concert continues a weekend long celebration of World Listening Day and this year's focus by NAISA on water sounds. Created in 2009 "A Sound Map of the Housatonic River" is the third in Annea Lockwood's seminal series of river sound map pieces. The piece takes the listener on an imaginary voyage from the source of the Housatonic River in the Berkshire Mountains to the river’s mouth in Long Island Sound, Connecticut. The mid-summer journey includes sounds from the natural world and those placed there by the human commercial activity.
World Listening Day Indoor Concert
By Annea Lockwood
July 19, 2025, 7:00 pm
Warbler's Roost, 3785D Eagle Lake Road, South River, Ontario.
Tickets $15, Free with Weekend Accommodation Pass ($225) or Event Pass ($65)
This indoor multi-loudspeaker concert continues a weekend long celebration of World Listening Day and this year's focus by NAISA on water sounds. Created in 2009 "A Sound Map of the Housatonic River" is the third in Annea Lockwood's seminal series of river sound map pieces. The piece takes the listener on an imaginary voyage from the source of the Housatonic River in the Berkshire Mountains to the river’s mouth in Long Island Sound, Connecticut. The mid-summer journey includes sounds from the natural world and those placed there by the human commercial activity.
Program:
I. A Sound Map of the Housatonic River by Annea Lockwood
This is a sonic map tracing the course of the Housatonic River from its sources in the Berkshire mountains of Western Massachusetts to the river’s mouth at Milford, Long Island Sound, Connecticut, USA, recorded both at the surface and underwater, not from boats but from the riverbank at many sites, thus mirroring the changing river-created environment.
During the late 19th and 20th centuries the river was industrialized and extensively polluted with PCBs and other toxic substances, but since the 1970s local action and an important Wetlands Protection Act have improved water quality and the riparian environment.
I am fascinated by the multi-layered complexity of the sounds created by fast flowing rivers and have been recording them for many years. An aural scan is a different experience from a visual scan, more intimate, I find. The energy flow of a river can be sensed very directly through the sounds created by the friction between current and riverbank, current and riverbed.
This is a sonic map tracing the course of the Housatonic River from its sources in the Berkshire mountains of Western Massachusetts to the river’s mouth at Milford, Long Island Sound, Connecticut, USA, recorded both at the surface and underwater, not from boats but from the riverbank at many sites, thus mirroring the changing river-created environment.
During the late 19th and 20th centuries the river was industrialized and extensively polluted with PCBs and other toxic substances, but since the 1970s local action and an important Wetlands Protection Act have improved water quality and the riparian environment.
I am fascinated by the multi-layered complexity of the sounds created by fast flowing rivers and have been recording them for many years. An aural scan is a different experience from a visual scan, more intimate, I find. The energy flow of a river can be sensed very directly through the sounds created by the friction between current and riverbank, current and riverbed.