On this Leap Day, we’ll ponder the question “Is silence broken?” on several different levels as we tune in to the late winter soundscape, go deep underground to study biotremulation and explore the sonic world of elephants, animals that use acoustic and infrasound methods of communication. Music by Elephant Revival, Elephant, Edward Elgar, Pauline Oliveros and Awry. Special thanks to freesound.org for sounds, elephantvoices.org for information and brainpickings.org for inspiration.

Echolocation explores aspects of environmental art, especially the use of bioacoustics in sound art and musical composition. The show dwells at the junction between art, science and natural sound, and features works by artists working in the fields of soundscape studies, deep listening and acoustic ecology. Featured composers include R. Murray Schaffer, Doug Quin, Lisa Walker, Hildegard Westerkamp, Pauline Oliveros, and others. Each quarterly program includes news and updates from fields related to scientific and artistic studies of environmental sound. Submissions of locally recorded and produced pieces are encouraged. https://www.facebook.com/EcholocationWGXC