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"Placeblogs are about the lived experience of a place. That experience may be news, or it may simply be about that part of our lives that isn't news but creates the texture of our daily lives: our commute, where we eat, conversations with our neighbors, the irritations and delights of living in a particular place among particular people." [more]
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Garfield Park Conservatory (Chicago)
Apparently at the opening of the Conservatory in the early 20th Century, Felix Mendelssohn's 'Spring Song' was performed. This is what you hear in the background of this field recording taken inside the Conservatory. In essence it attemps to recreate the audio space as it might have been back then.
Conservatory Clip
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Urban Environments
Music as foreground to the background/middleground of screeching brakes, car horns and whisles of traffic cops.
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The Bike Bin Project (Seattle)
The Bike Bin Project is a bicycle tour of Seattle from the constrained perspectives of several of Seattle's most iconoclastic and brilliant composers. Each composer has assigned an exact time and exact place for their piece to be experienced. The listener downloads, ventures to these specific places and times, and listens.
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The Agora
Bronze sculpture by Magdalena Abakanowicz
Roosevelt and Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
Duration: (Any duration)
Artist Website
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Gehry Bridge at Millennium Park
Duration: 1-2 minutes
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