WBEZ - Crickets, katydids and thumping bass: A wild stew of sounds is coming from Millennium Park

WBEZ
By Mark Guarino
July 11, 2024, 4:54pm CT

“To most people, the sound of Chicago is the bat cracking at Wrigley Field, children splashing along the lakefront, or the L train rumbling overhead.

To Giovanni Aloi and Chris Hunter, the city sounds like that and much more. On Saturday afternoon on the Great Lawn of Millennium Park, the pair will present original compositions that mesh the urban environment with the natural one – a 90-minute soundscape that will transform wildlife sounds, from cicadas to birds, into aural compositions.”