Chimera - Phonography Austin + World Listening Day

In celebration of World Listening Day, July 18th, 2024 at 7pm, Collide Arts and Phonography Austin presented a sound installation, CHIMERA, in which field recordings will be played continuously throughout lower Pease Park.

In horticulture, chimera refers to a grafted plant that exhibits characteristics of both the host and donor plants. With CHIMERA, we hope to find out what happens when one soundscape is grafted onto another. Artists were encouraged to submit field recordings that were made outside of the context of Pease Park – other biomes than Pease Park, from other seasons than summer, in other contexts than an urban park.

Contributing artists are Ann Armstrong, Aux Aux, Ara Herandez, Adam Hilton, Alex Keller, Steven N. Landry, Christopher McConnell, H. Montgomery, Alex Keller, and Josh Ronsen.