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Campus North Parking 1. Lou Mallozzi Close Quarters, 2019 Campus North Residential 12-channel sound installation Commons Vera and A. D. Elden Sculpture Garden, A site-responsive installation in which four dismembered voices speak of bodies that nearly but never quite touch.

Court Cochrane-Woods 2 Art Center Theatre 2. Walter Kitundu Maximum of the Eyes, 2019 Multi-channel sound installation 1 Birch grove near Campus North Residential Commons A multi-channel installation that fills a small grove of birch trees Henry Crown with sounds collected from and Lake Michigan, painting Smart Field House an ever-changing sonic picture of the city’s environments. Young Museum Memorial

E 56TH ST 3. David Wallace Haskins Breath, 2019 Infrasonic subwoofers, full-range speakers, computer Max Palevsky Cobb Gate Commons Max Palevsky Commons Max Palevsky (West) (Central) Commons Through an array of low-frequency full-spectrum speakers, (East) this sound sculpture allows both hearing and deaf visitors to physically experience the often unheard parts of the Accelerator Building ’s diverse soundscape.

4. Sam Pluta Parallel/Series, 2019 Multichannel sound installation of sine waves through speakers Passageways flanking Cobb Gate William A single harmonic series, arranged in order from low to Eckhardt Mansueto high, emanates from speakers along a wall in a long hallway, Research Library Bartlett revealing its secrets to listeners as they move through space. Center Commons University S UNIVERSITY AVE S ELLIS AVE Church 5. Katherine Young Disciples Resonance, and the Inhibition of, 2019 Biopsychology Divinity Research Building House Original text, fragments of PhD dissertations, and sounds performed by vocalists Angel Bat Dawid, E 57TH ST Carol Genetti, and Jenna Lyle Botany Pond and Hull Court Kersten 3 Mitchell Tower Sonically enchanting Botany Pond and surrounding gardens, Physics Hitchcock Hall Anatomy Zoology Quadrangle Hutchinson Club this work celebrates female-identifying scientists by extracting Cobb Commons Snell Gate Reynolds fragments of text from their writings, ornamented with hums, Hall 4a 4b Club whirs, warbles, trills, and tones. Erman Culver Biology Hall Center 6 5 6. Stephan Moore Mandel Stevanovich Six Accompaniments for Solo Voice, 2019 Hall Center Searle Six stereo sound installations Hinds Chemistry Snell-Hitchcock Quadrangle Geophysics Lab Calvert House Six benches are outfitted with speakers, each providing a Lab Kent Lab different accompaniment for the ceaseless vocalization of Jones Ryerson Lab Eckhart Hall 5737 the nearby Searle Chemistry Laboratory’s ventilation system. Lab

Graduate 7. Olivia Block Indiana Karst, 2019 Admissions Multi-channel sound installation with architectural fragments Levi Bookstore Hall Walkway between Pick Hall and Walker Museum A multi-speaker installation that plays field recordings of cave water sounds. The recording references the Indiana limestone that is used as a building material in much of the architecture on campus.

Oriental Institute Breasted Hall 8. Nomi Epstein Quiet Qloister, 2019 Hydrophone, computer, and quadraphonic sound Cobb 7 Swift Rosenwald Walker Swift Cloister Garden Hall Hall Museum Hall Pick In Swift Cloister Garden’s uniquely protected sonic space, this work 8 Hall subtly pursues a further sense of seclusion and escape by echoing, Bond enhancing, and processing the sound of the cloister’s fountains. Blake Chapel Hall Beecher Franklin Hall Lexington Mclean Parking Lot Institute Gates Haskell Stuart 9. Andy Slater Unseen Re-heard, 2019 Hall Hall Hall Green Two-channel sound installation Hall Passageway between Classics and Wieboldt Hall Goldblatt Good- Kelly A durational piece composed of reimagined, repurposed, and S UNIVERSITY AVE S ELLIS AVE speed Hall displaced sounds collected on the University of Chicago campus. Hall Wieboldt Harper Memorial Social Science Hicks McElwee Hall Library Research Classics 9 Foster E 59TH ST smartmuseum.uchicago.edu for commissioned works and artists the on information additional For Online daily 9am–9pm Hours the University of Chicago. of theComputer MusicStudio, of Composition andDirector Sam Pluta,Assistant Professor Curator of Art,and Public is curated by Laura Steward, The Chicago SoundShow The Chicago Sound Show Sound Chicago The , visit .

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