Field Guide: Ecological Sound Recording & Deep Listening
Field Guide: Radiating Undercurrents – Communing with Elements of Socrates
A Free Two-Session Workshop
Buena Onda Collective is partnering with us for an immersive, hands-on workshop exploring the hidden communications of Socrates Park’s multifaceted ecosystem. Together, we’ll attune with the environment, practice deep listening, learn hands-on recording techniques, and transform what we hear into interactive sound sculptures. Pre-registration required, sign up for one or both sessions.
Session 1: Ecological Sound Recording & Deep Listening
Saturday, August 23 | 12 – 4 pm
RSVP Free by email: education@
Explore the sonic life of the Park — from water and plant whispers to soil communication and insect songs. Using specialized microphones, sensors, and the practice of Pauline Oliveros’ deep listening, we’ll capture the park’s dynamic soundscape. Inspired by sound ecologist Bernie Krause, we’ll reflect on how recording and archiving sound is an act of environmental care and knowledge sharing.
Session 2: Interactive Sound Sculpture Building
Saturday, September 20 | 12 – 4 pm
Learn more HERE>>>
- FREE & Open to All — No Experience Necessary
- Engage with art, ecology, and sound in a playful, collaborative way
- Come curious — leave attuned to the Socrates Sculpture Park’s dynamic eco-chorus!
About Buena Onda Collective
In 2019, Buena Onda (Camila a. morales & Dominika ksel) formed during a chance encounter in the chilly winter seas of Rockaway Beach. Quickly, we realized a shared love for the ocean and creating artworks that reframe our ecological imprint through technology, consciousness and community. Our artistic vision is guided via eco-centricity, integrating multi-species interaction & collaboration while using sustainable & reclaimed materials that manifest into dynamic and holistic community experiences. As immigrants coming from countries displaced by dictatorship, we connected on our activism, care and desire to integrate novel experiences that bring people and various sentient and non-sentient life forms together for the purpose of healing, shifting relationships and building new paradigms. Our practice examines the knowledge and systems of ecotechnologies and frameworks of ecosophy, queer ecology and deep listening. These ideas manifest in experiential public installations, sculptures, mixed-reality and workshops creating a future where under-represented communities have access to a social art practice that connects them with public spaces and their extended ecologies.
Dominika and Camila are educators who currently teach at NYU IDM, CUNY(New Media Arts & Entertainment Technology) and conduct free public workshops that bridge, ecology, open source DIY art making (3D modeling, mixed reality, machine learning, game design, sound & video production, coding, and circuit board design) with more analog techniques in printmaking, photography, sculpture & performance.
Learn more at https://buenaondacollective.org/