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Florasonic: Rob Frye - Evolutionary Sounds


  • Lincoln Park Conservatory 2391 North Stockton Drive Chicago, IL, 60614 United States (map)

OPENING RECEPTION: January 15, 1 - 3PM
Sunday, January 15 - Sunday, April 9
Lincoln Park Conservatory Fern Room
2391 N Stockton Dr, Chicago
FREE & open to the public, during Fern Room open hours


Woodwind instruments, birdsong and field recordings gathered by Rob in the Prairie State of Illinois are manipulated to reveal a native soundscape somehow in harmony with the exotic flora inside the Lincoln Park Conservatory. Slowing down bird sounds to a more human friendly speed unveils a beauty and complexity achieved over millennia.

Rob Frye is a musician and birder interested in bioacoustics and convergence.

Florasonic is an ongoing sound installation commissioning series by ESS in collaboration with the Lincoln Park Conservatory. The 2022-2023 season is funded in part by the Puffin Foundation.