February 24 – March 21: Hearing the Climate

February 24 – March 21 2025
Sound Studies Gallery, 3-47 Arts Building
10:00 – 5:00 Monday – Friday

The UN’s World Meteorological Organization has confirmed 2024 was the hottest year on record, at 1.55 C above pre-industrial temperatures. As our world continues to change through this warming trend, the frequency of natural disasters related to these climate anomalies are expanding at an alarming rate. At this moment, the city of Los Angeles is still burning as a result of the worst wildfire in the city’s history, while much of North America is experiencing an unprecedented cold front due an expanding polar vortex. How do these rapid changes affect human emotions? What are the factors causing people to FEEL this moment?

Each in their own ways, art students have created audio pieces in response to this theme.  The program listing below represents the order of a continually repeating playlist.

  1. Ella Whiting Oranges (2-ch, 3:02)
  2. Gian Carlo Kaguitla Three Phases (2-ch, 4:00)
  3. Lucy Bonville SYNTHETIC NATURE (4-ch, 2:52)
  4. Samantha Gaudet Snow’s Apathy (2-ch, 4:09)
  5. Heidi Long The Longbirds (2-ch, 5:49)
  6. Mari Alice Conrad Out for Delivery (8-ch, 5:51)
  7. Tayla Hamilton Earth’s Heartbeat (2-ch, 4:01)
  8. Xiangyu Liu Echoes of The End (2-ch, 4:45)
  9. Ayomida Popoola We should have listened (2-ch, 5:36)
  10. Madison Miller Invisible Interference (2-ch, 4:38)
  11. Jenny Zhu Bedtime Story (2-ch, 4:54)
  12. Thuy Nguyen The March (2-ch, 3:32)
  13. Tia Brunnage Vocal Forest (8-ch, 4:52)