Grace Shannon is a musician based in San Pedro. Her music is also published under Gustopher Bones, and her recent work takes inspiration from geologic processes & earth systems, cartography, soundscape ecology, aural diversity, and religion. She is a local performer and music teacher at the Gray School of Music.
Artist Location: San Pedro, CA
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PARTICIPATION
soundscapes On-site & Online June 7th
There They Return Again
Disturbance and restoration of the fire cycle. Triggers and thresholds, elasticity, new earth, a new state. Sounds from woodlands, church.
soundscapes On-site June 1st and online June 9th
Worked landscape
Hearing in open and small spaces – hypersensitivity & amplification, nature & mechanical noise. Sounds from bathrooms, rivers, meetings, woodlands.
PROGRAM #3
Audio presentation Online October 29
Bioacoustic Variability
Bioacoustics as a means of data collection is a unique and developing field. Soundscape ecology allows for biological research through the application of biophonic sound intake (species identification, biodiversity estimations, etc.), but also presents the increasing intervention of anthropophonic sound and its implications.
“Bioacoustic Variability” examines birdsong recorded in Long Beach and in San Pedro’s White Point Nature Preserve. The reception of birdsong by the human ear has been studied and interpreted scientifically, recreationally, and spiritually. “Bioacoustic Variability” receives and manipulates this sound and the created environment, as human interference disrupts the natural and instinctive communication & processes of its organisms.