Cover Video: Excerpt of a live streamed performance for the sound art festival SoundPedro. View the full performance here [1 hour, 8 minutes]
MEDIA APPEARANCES
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Interviewed on the To The Best of Our Knowledge (TTBOOK). NPR Radio Show & Podcast
Capturing a symphony of time in a dawn chorus on Wisconson Public Radio I was interviewed as part of TTBOOK’s series Deep Time. From the site description of the episode: “Acoustic ecologist and sound artist Alex Braidwood has recorded many dawn choruses, from first-light to full sunrise, in his Iowa backyard and all over the…
PROJECTS
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Gallery Exhibition Soundscape Design – University of Iowa Library Main Gallery
Commissioned to compose a nature soundscape for the exhibition “It’s Been Wonderful Knowing You: Wildlife Conservation and Advocacy Through the Lens of Jay N. ‘Ding’ Darling” at the University of Iowa Main Library Gallery.
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Nature is on the Line
An interactive critical listening experience. Engage the rotary dial, hear field recordings collected around some of Iowa’s few remaining nature reserves. SOLD
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Iowa FilmScene – Documentary Post-screening Sonic Observation Workshop
A sonic observation workshop at FilmScene in Iowa City following a premiere screening of the documentary film Observer.
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Live Canal Tour Boat Reception Performance at Venice Architecture Biennale for Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Sub_Merge @ WFAE 2023 – Conference Proceedings
A multichannel sonification installation by Dr Diana Chester and Alex Braidwood with live performance by Alex Braidwood. Installed at the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology 2023 conference at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.
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Cathedral to Aquatic Sonification – Immersive Installation
An immersive sound installation at Public Space One in Iowa City.
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The Quarantine Concerts – Live #NatureSound Stream – presented by Experimental Sound Studio & pt.fwd
This live #NatureSound experiment was part a streaming concert and artist fundraiser featuring performances by sonic artists, musicians, and composers from around the midwest.
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Sunday MASS – Mechanism for Actualizing Speculative Soundscapes – Live #NautreSound Performance
This live performance uses the popular platform of the party DJ to explore ideas of nature sound in a new context within live events and streaming media culture. Using various synthesis and composition techniques, the overall arch of the performance is modeled after the vocalization energy and activity of a pristine dawn chorus from the…
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Isle Royale – Listening Beyond the Edge
This programmatically generated video was created for installation in a gallery and intended to be experienced wearing high-quality headphones. The footage and the sounds were captured during my time on Isle Royale as one of the 2019 artists-in-resident. The audio samples are being manipulated by data collected by the Isle Royale Wolf-Moose research team.
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Buoy Music. 2020 Reboot. More Sensors. Better System.
After creating the initial buoy music project, the number of sensors on the buoy in West Okoboji Lake increased. After the upgrade, data was available from the surface to the bottom of the lake from an array of spaced-out sensors. This new reboot utilizes these sensors. The system was also updated to be more efficient,…
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Hear Below: Listening to Chicago Underground.
Hear Below: Listening to Chicago Underground is a free, public soundwalk to explore Chicago’s pedway system with our ears, led by Eric Leonardson, Christophe Preissing, and Alex Braidwood and his Listening Instruments. This event is part of CAA 2020
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Isle Royale National Park. Artist-in-Residence Website.
I have created this website to capture the experience of being an artist-in-residence at Isle Royale National Park. The site will be updated as I prepare for the time on the island, make posts while I am there, and continue to make work inspired by my time there.
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Critical Listening in a Divergent Wilderness. Workshop in Joshua Tree National Park.
Acoustic Ecology is a relatively new field emerging at the intersection of a variety of disciplines and being defined by a variety of issues. A portion of this workshop will be focused on exploring the roles acoustic ecology can play in the designing, building, and experiencing of different environments. This will allow participants to transform…
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Listening Bus Tour. Ames, IA
A Bureau of Infrastructure Tourism Listening Bus Tour in Ames, Iowa
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Acoustic Ecology @ Iowa Lakeside Lab on Iowa Public Television
Throughout this course, students will explore a variety of tactics for exploring, documenting and analyzing the soundscape at various locations surrounding Lakeside Lab and beyond.
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Water Quality Xylophone
An interactive public art sculpture that sonifies nearby water quality data and allows participants to play the data on the resulting instrument.
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Based on a True Story: From Rural Northwest Iowa to Downtown Des Moines
Based on a True Story May 18 – August 11, 2018 Octagon Center for the Arts – Sweeney Gallery Sound is an important aspect of the world around us. It tells a great deal about our surroundings when we take the time to listen. Listening requires time to experience because sound requires time to exist.…
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Bureau of Infrastructure Tourism
Providing listening tours of infrastructure noise and acoustically rich non-spaces in the built environment.
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Listen Right Here: DSM. Des Moines Art Center Iowa Artist.
An urban soundscape exploration completed during my year as an Iowa Artist through the Des Moines Art Center.
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Parts Per Million [Interactive Cassettes 01]
An interactive installation exploring a years worth of Des Moines River nitrate levels in relationship to Iowa nature sounds.
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Listening Instruments Invention Workshop and Soundwalk @ the Des Moines Art Center
A listening focused design and exploration workshop for folks of all ages.
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Listening in Bogong Village Cassette
A nature sound exploration released as a cassette with digital download on Maximum Ames Records
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Heritage Listening @ Black Contemporary
A sonic exploration of unfarmed land in Iowa, installed in a dormant seed dryer located on a heritage farm.