https://listeningtothemississippi.com Listening to the Mississippi Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:37:11 +0000 https://listeningtothemississippi.com en https://listeningtothemississippi.com/Listening-to-the-Mississippi Wed, 03 May 2023 20:28:06 +0000 Listening to the Mississippi https://listeningtothemississippi.com/Listening-to-the-Mississippi Listening to the Mississippi https://listeningtothemississippi.com/About Tue, 26 Dec 2023 20:09:19 +0000 Listening to the Mississippi https://listeningtothemississippi.com/About About There is no one way to listen to the river; there are multiple listenings and multiple rivers. Listening to the Mississippi is an iterative project that has unfolded over the course of a decade; it is a library of underwater sounds, artwork and actions. This work asks listeners to orient themselves to the river through sound, rather than sight alone. The sounds include water gurgling, train horns, barge engines, fish croaks, silt rushing by in a static crackle, bullfrogs, cicadas, and waves hitting the shore. It includes radio interference of a female voice singing and reporting on the dow jones industrial average. Listening to the Mississippi is a perceptual adjustment to the river; it is a practice of critical attunement to histories and futures both human and non-human. Sound is a medium to access political, ecological, historical, and present realities that may not be visible by sight, but are always present. Whatever moment the river might invite me to, it is a thick moment, a moment in motion. In 2013, Monica Moses Haller began a public artwork; a listening station commissioned by Northern Spark and in conjunction with a group of collaborators. In 2015, artist Sebastian Muellauer and Haller expanded the project, making underwater recordings that span the river from the headwaters to the Gulf to create a sound library of more than 200 recordings. In 2019, composers Michi Wiancko and Judd Greenstein used those underwater recordings to create the first “track,” which manifested as a sound composition and traveling listening station that moved down the Mississippi for listening events in towns and sites along its banks. In 2023, Haller expanded these tracks and invited Matt Rahaim to make a new composition for the Twin Cities Triennial, Wakpa. These tracks were accompanied by a book of essays Haller wrote collaboratively with others. The whole work was installed as a public artwork at four places along the Mississippi River. https://listeningtothemississippi.com/Documentation Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:37:11 +0000 Listening to the Mississippi https://listeningtothemississippi.com/Documentation Listening to the Mississippi <img width="7952" height="5304" width_o="7952" height_o="5304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f83befc51c548c68af6b719c9f1e3d271af44f14b7690e568c230e4a537f59b1/__DSC2736-copy.jpg" data-mid="201396067" border="0" alt="Installation at Carl W. Kroening Nature Center in North Minneapolis, MN" data-caption="Installation at Carl W. Kroening Nature Center in North Minneapolis, MN" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f83befc51c548c68af6b719c9f1e3d271af44f14b7690e568c230e4a537f59b1/__DSC2736-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2016" height="1512" width_o="2016" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7307596bfcb7d5ba483c6c0e9ffd98c4dd511c04ff09c06eac5b5bbc48b805b9/_Haller_Monica_06.jpg" data-mid="201396191" border="0" alt="View of two listeners at the Saint Anthony Falls Lock and Dam in Minneapolis, MN" data-caption="View of two listeners at the Saint Anthony Falls Lock and Dam in Minneapolis, MN" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7307596bfcb7d5ba483c6c0e9ffd98c4dd511c04ff09c06eac5b5bbc48b805b9/_Haller_Monica_06.jpg" /> <img width="4218" height="3217" width_o="4218" height_o="3217" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65d0ce46b2fee5e7112c5389c629d085d194807344a39db2128575450128ee9f/_Haller_Monica_02.1.jpg" data-mid="201396183" border="0" 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Mississippi Visitor Center in the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul, MN" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2daf1d87973008b4a6fc4f5ed15849cb3784bb64f480abb5aa5b04af1b73e09e/_Science-Museum-Composite-2-copy.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="1891" width_o="3000" height_o="1891" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6741c6914783640f5e7b14279a7f09a557b096819dedbf33d6a426dc7fd25053/_Haller_Monica__01.jpg" data-mid="201396181" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6741c6914783640f5e7b14279a7f09a557b096819dedbf33d6a426dc7fd25053/_Haller_Monica__01.jpg" /> <img width="3744" height="5616" width_o="3744" height_o="5616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3bdf005c9ba2be25c1d8900e3f8232db502f0ea3608d211a00e5565fbe964c06/_IMG_8664.jpg" data-mid="201396195" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3bdf005c9ba2be25c1d8900e3f8232db502f0ea3608d211a00e5565fbe964c06/_IMG_8664.jpg" /> https://listeningtothemississippi.com/notes-for-listening Tue, 26 Dec 2023 20:40:18 +0000 Listening to the Mississippi https://listeningtothemississippi.com/notes-for-listening notes for listening <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/37f8fb17e2c114325a54fd3e75b0472b0f927125aded77db9c211d28dfa04ffb/NotesforListening.jpg" data-mid="200157317" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/37f8fb17e2c114325a54fd3e75b0472b0f927125aded77db9c211d28dfa04ffb/NotesforListening.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1bfc92aaa1c904534e65bb361e55d6de6dc86d7f95a08f9f8b4aa0798f487f4d/NotesforListening2.jpg" data-mid="200157318" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1bfc92aaa1c904534e65bb361e55d6de6dc86d7f95a08f9f8b4aa0798f487f4d/NotesforListening2.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c54e507b56e25d1858ea537c1d2e3f76fa8a636ad490f13538ae9c3423a2ad2/NotesforListening11.jpg" data-mid="200157327" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c54e507b56e25d1858ea537c1d2e3f76fa8a636ad490f13538ae9c3423a2ad2/NotesforListening11.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72b2b0e8216775be01bf5bf9f89160433f70c68b3f31c7f829438b98a0321556/NotesforListening9.jpg" data-mid="200157325" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/72b2b0e8216775be01bf5bf9f89160433f70c68b3f31c7f829438b98a0321556/NotesforListening9.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a52e40829cb8538be3b0db883655f56cce71545d3d7a59eceff9ede560d87abb/NotesforListening12.jpg" data-mid="200157328" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a52e40829cb8538be3b0db883655f56cce71545d3d7a59eceff9ede560d87abb/NotesforListening12.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6d730a1a191725b471657a012afc6529f441cd4a382a27030a8ddc772d613a4/NotesforListening13.jpg" data-mid="200157329" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6d730a1a191725b471657a012afc6529f441cd4a382a27030a8ddc772d613a4/NotesforListening13.jpg" /> This book, notes for listening, shares perceptions of the sounds written by the artists and me in April, 2023. These notes are not fixed; if we wrote them last year, or next month they would change routes, flow differently. We approach listening “as a process rather than a certainty.”1 An invitation to learn, attune, to know and pay attention. The book also invites the participant to write what they hear. The blank pages make room for what cannot be contained here and the things that are not named. What do you hear? What do you know? How do you change? 1Hopinka, Sky. “The Centers of Somewhere,” Walker Art Center, Crosscuts, April 16, 2018, https://walkerart.org/magazine/sky-hopinka-op-ed-uncertainty-authority-indigenous-representation.“I’m beginning to understand how to be a listener, without being a spectator, and knowing that it is a pursuit of process rather than certainty.” https://listeningtothemississippi.com/Credits Mon, 19 Jun 2023 16:03:38 +0000 Listening to the Mississippi https://listeningtothemississippi.com/Credits Credits Sound CompositionsJudd GreensteinMonica Moses Haller Matt Rahaim Michi Wiancko Sound Recordings along the Mississippi Monica Moses Haller Sebastian Muellauer &nbsp; Sound Processing Prerna Harriet Matzdorf Monica Moses Haller Audio Production and Mastering Matt Rahaim Notes for Listening Text Tia-Simone Gardner Jaysen Hohlen Monica Moses Haller Matt Rahaim Text Editing Patricia Briggs Jaysen Hohlen Patricia Moses Angela Tillges Book Design Matt Rezac Box Design Brendan Barrett Box Materials Wood from the Hood Project Manager Jaysen Hohlen Thank you Collaborators Thank you to all collaborators on previous iterations of this project. Your artwork, ideas and collaboration made the work then, and they continue to build it here. Thank you Albertine Kimble and Greg Beale in “Conversations Down River.” (2008) Adriana Knouf, Sara Pajunen, Molly Reichert and Jonathan Zorn in “Can you Listen to the same river twice?” (2013) Sebastian Muellauer, A Studio in the Woods, John Ruskey, Mike Clark, David Weiss and many others in “Listening to the Mississippi: from the Headwaters to the Gulf.” (2015) Tia-Simone Gardner, Matt Rahaim, Monique Verdin, Michi Wiancko, Judd Greenstein, Prerna, Harriet Matzdorf, and Erika Terwilliger in “Listening to the Mississippi.” (2019) Thank You Funders This iteration of Listening to the Mississippi was commissioned for the inaugural Wakpa Triennia, presented by Public Art Saint Paul with support from the Knight Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. This project was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Thank you to all of the organizations for their generous support. ContactInquires about the project can be made here.&nbsp; https://listeningtothemississippi.com/Contact Mon, 27 Nov 2023 18:07:11 +0000 Listening to the Mississippi https://listeningtothemississippi.com/Contact Contact ︎