What does it mean to listen carefully within a campus shaped by ecological ambition, dense infrastructure, and constant movement? Join sound artist and professor of art Linda O’Keefe on this guided sound walk and mapping workshop, which invites participants to actively listen to the Stony Brook campus as a dynamic and contested acoustic environment. Moving through green spaces, built structures, pathways, and the persistent presence of traffic and mechanical systems, we will attend to how sound reflects broader questions of sustainability, access, care, and coexistence.
The walk emphasizes embodied listening—how our bodies move through space, how we contribute to its soundscape, and how listening can become an intentional, ethical practice rather than a passive act. The session concludes with a hands-on sound mapping workshop, where participants use simple materials to develop alternative ways of mapping sound as movement, spread, interruption, and memory, experimenting with visual languages that resist fixed or purely representational models of place.