Grace Shannon is a musician based in San Pedro. She is studying Environmental Science & Policy at California State University Long Beach with interests in geology, sustainability, and environmental justice. Her music is published under Gustopher Bones, and her recent work takes inspiration from geologic processes and earth systems. 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 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.