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Eric Leonardson
SoundTent At Camp Sherwin

Single US 2015 on Radius label
Electronic (Experimental)

Eric Leonardson’s "SoundTent at Camp Sherwin" uses sounds recorded and selected from a gathering for listening to the dawn chorus on the shoreline of Lake Michigan on the north side of Chicago. Lake Michigan is the second largest of the five Great Lakes. It is an essential and also challenged natural and economic resource. Connecting the dawn chorus to an electroacoustic community of live open microphones on the web is a curious phenomenon, linking an elemental substance and process of the earth to technologies of transmission. Arranged into an audio composition, "SoundTent at Camp Sherwin" is a creative work in sound culled from an ecotone, a transitional zone between two biological communities. At Camp Sherwin, sounds of waves, birds, and humans mix. Following the dawn chorus event on May 2nd presented in collaboration with soundCamp / REVEIL, a real time audio stream will continue for the remainder of the month from a secure, private location nearby the public one. From one standpoint the real time audio stream is a form of electronic eavesdropping. From another, it is a shared resource for eco-sensing and the soundscape: monitoring and reminding us that life depends on water, the essential ingredient for all life. Its movement and disappearance shapes the landscape in an audibly cyclical and dynamic process.

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