Following a summer spent in Chicago, “The World Doubles in Size” is a piece compiled of field recordings taken all around the city- documenting a summer spent at home. The sounds of the Chicago river, summer storms, conversations, cicadas, violin, and voice, are all featured throughout the piece in varying levels of processing.

This collaborative sound installation arose from the graduate seminar “Sound, Performance, and Land” at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, co-taught by Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor Raven Chacon and Whitney Johnson.

My Ideal is Windy is a site-responsive installation inhabiting Lincoln Park Conservatory’s Fern Room. The work is brought to you by 2023 Alba Artist-In-Residence Dorothy Carlos.

Florasonic returns to the Lincoln Park Conservatory Fern Room with a newly commissioned installation by Kikù Hibino entitled fell to fern. Additionally, Kikù will perform a closing concert featuring Alex Inglizian on Sunday, October 16.

Set in the Fern Room of Chicago’s Lincoln Park Conservatory, Lakshmi Ramgopal’s installation A Half-Light Chorus features a ninety-minute, four-channel recording of vocalists imitating the calls of birds from India and Sanskrit literature. Punctuated with original Tamil odes to individual birds, this tapestry of arias, whistles, clicks, and cries plays with the diurnal rhythms, forms, and functions of birdsong.

 Sara Ludy's Climates is a soundscape inspired by changes in perception of sound while experiencing a feverish state.

What you'll hear in the Fern Room is Night Songs for the Birds of North America by JOSHUA DUMAS—a four-channel exploration of translation, memory, and mass extinction in the anthropocene.

What you'll hear in the Fern Room is Droopy, a composition by the Chicago duo Coppice (Noé Cuellar and Joseph Kramer). These musicians use acoustic and electronic instruments, with a focus on bellows instruments that are driven by airflow, such as accordion and pump organ. In Droopy, they concentrate on exhalation and the decay of breath to produce sounds that taper off in pitch and volume, recalling the drooping shapes of many of the plants in the Fern Room, and the heat and humidity that pervade it.