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How are sounds monuments, how are they destinations? Our guest for this event is Kara Oehler, a sound artist who recently produced a special “Sonic Voyages” issue of the New York Times Magazine. A radical departure from print, the issue asks us instead to listen. In NYC, ultrasonic microphones placed in rat nests reveal the conversations of urban rats. In northern Italy, we hear VLF signals from space through a long 100-year old cable wire. In the Atacama desert, silence is pierced by the crust of the earth cracking. In conversation with Prof. Neil Verma (Radio/TV/Film), Oehler will share how she and the team chose 11 destinations, how the sounds were captured, and the overall aesthetic potential of field recordings. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.