This Street is a Song

'This Street is a Song’ is a mixed media sound installation that emerges from an ongoing creative-research project exploring practices of situated listening in a vacant lot garden on the street in Albany, NY, where I have lived for the past decade. To listen here is to reverberate with issues of public space, ruderal ecologies, food justice, sonic territorialism, community engagement, violence, structural racism, and the environmental and economic legacy of 20th Century urban renewal. ‘This Street is a Song’ attempts to hear, articulate, and share some of the songs of this place.