Multiple Park by Cheryl E. Leonard & Wobbly

Talk about local. Cheryl E. Leonard and Jon Leidecker’s Multiple Park is a field recorder’s dream. While the title track is literally built from the recordings in three California parks, there’s a larger commentary on what new and evolving narratives of what “the outdoors” actually sounds like in this day and age. Noise is profoundly cultural; the act of listening to it even more so. And even further of note: Noise is information. Our physical environment tells us so much about change. It is a literal and sonic reflection of how we and the rest of world have existed alongside and against each other. How will physical geographies continue to be influenced by technological change? What will the “outdoors” transform into? Where do soundscapes (sonic geographies) play a role in documenting the “vanishing biophony?”

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