Listen Athens
Monday, May 4 at 1 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room N140
What would Athens tell you if you truly listened?
Listen Athens is a project developed through recording, mapping, and archiving the soundscapes of Athens-Clarke County. The project takes shape as an interactive website that invites visitors to explore Athens through sound. Join us to meet the team behind the project and listen in.
Project site: https://www.listenathens.org
Refreshments will be provided! All are welcome to join in this year-end event hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization.
Project participants
Jared Holton, Music
Peter Van Zandt Lane, Music
James A. Owen, Institute of Native American Studies
Allison Injaian, Ecology
Supported in part by an Arts Collaborative Mini Grant.
Listen Athens is an immersive, interdisciplinary project created to explore how soundscapes and musical practices create, reflect, and sustain human connection in our local ecology. This archive documents soundscapes to analyze the evolving impact of human influence on the environment. It serves as a digital repository for the ephemeral acoustic markers of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia and preserves the “vibe” of the Classic City that exists beyond the visual. From the dawn chorus of the North Oconee River to the rhythmic industrial hum of downtown, this map invites you to listen deeply to the spaces we inhabit and build a way of knowing our environment through sound.
This sound map is an ongoing archive. As you navigate these points, we encourage you to consider your own role in this soundscape. How do we contribute to the noise, and where do we find the silence?
We hope this map changes not just how you see Athens but how you hear it.