Explore the history and sonic landscapes of neighborhoods familiar and strange. Learn to use hand held recorders to make your own sound collages. Share your creations with the world.

• Sound Places Workshop with Prometheus Radio
  
  Members of the Prometheus Radio Project, will lead a Spanish-friendly hands-on radio production workshop at which participants experience a super-concentrated dose of radio production knowledge, then practice those skills while recording stories and sounds from their neighborhood. Instructors will go over everything from recording broadcast quality audio to effective interviewing techniques. The equipment required to get broadcast quality audio is inexpensive and readily available, and basic recording and interviewing techniques are easily mastered. Interactive, popular education techniques will make this session accessible to participants of all experience levels. Led by knowledgeable citizen journalists, this hands-on workshop will be a unique opportunity for community organizations and individuals to paint a portrait of their community using sound.
  
  
  @ Diversified Community Services, 1529 S 22nd St.
  March 24th, 2012, 12 noon - 4 pm
• Sound Places Workshop with Byron Westbrook
  
  This workshop will experiment with using field recordings as an instrument with a group exercise exploring how the recording process can operate as a performance. The group will visit the Grays Ferry Power Plant to record using hand-held recorders provided by the workshop. Machinery around the plant emits a loud hum that is very similar to a low B-flat musical note. Participants will explore the site to hear the different possibilities, listening to how the position of the recorder can change the sound of the hum and how motions and voice can mix in conjunction with the sounds of the environment to create a sound performance. All recordings will be played back together at the end of the session to be heard as an ensemble. Space is limited, please RSVP.
  
  
  @ Shiloh Baptist Church, 2040 Christian St.
  April 14, 2012, 12 noon - 4 pm
• Sound Places Workshop with Maria Dumlao
  
  "Imagine, Listen, and Remember" investigates how listening and mapping can transform our relationship to a given location in the neighborhood of Point Breeze/Grays Ferry. This workshop involves imagining sound, listening to present sound, and remembering past sound. Through focused listening, participants becomes more aware of their environment as they discover their surroundings in an audible way. Participants will be mapping out their sonic experiences thereby creating new narratives of their relationship to the given location.
  
  
  @ Zion Hill Memorial Baptist, 2700 Ellsworth St.
  June 2, 2012, 12 noon - 4 pm
• Sound Places Workshop with Eugene Lew
  
  This workshop will introduce participants to mobile field recording in an urban park setting. Workshop members will listen to and record the sounds of traffic, the recycling center, park visitors on foot, bicycle, rollerblade, skateboard, Segway, stroller, aircraft and watercraft. Non human-made sounds that may also be encountered include birds, the wind, insects, squirrels, rats, feral dogs, and water lapping against the riverbank. While the only certain sound will be that of automobile traffic, it is very likely that participants will encounter sounds not expected. Eugene will discuss microphone polar patterns, stereo methods, recording, playback/delivery considerations, storage, best practices, editing, processing, geotagging, metadata, archiving and equipment. Workshop participants will walk approximately 2 miles (from the starting point and back). There will be 8 spots available; headphones will be provided.
  
  
  @ Crescent Park, 34th and Grays Ferry Ave.
  May 26, 2012, 12 noon - 4 pm