Better Waverly Street Studio Sound Map
A map of plants, their sounds generated through bio-sonification, and collective music making.
This map was created as part of Found Sound Nation's Street Studio India Virtual Residency 2022.
Street Studio House Sessions
Street Studio House Sessions. Click to expand.
Collaborative track created by Cathy Cooke and Kata Frederick using found sound, acoustic instruments and bio data from houseplants
Street Studio House Session 2
Street Studio House Session 2. Click to expand.
Track made by Grant aka Alienood, Joey, and Pangelica using VSTs, money tree vibrations, vocals, and other objects.
901 Arts Street Studios
901 Arts Street Studios. Click to expand.
Over the course of two sessions, young people from 901 Arts collected bio data, assigned instruments to different plants, and made beats from found sound recorded during a work/ play session in the field.
Field Studio
Field Studio . Click to expand.
What was planned to be a day of exploring the environmental ecology of the landscape through sound turned into: -exploring collective sound making within a public green space. -observing and identifying human created threats to the ecosystem -organizing a garbage clean up and dividing up tasks among community members for a sustainable system of care for each other & co-inhabitants
Paradise Apple
Paradise Apple. Click to expand.
An apple tree that produces "juicy fruits that taste like paradise to a variety of bird species. The tree's flowers produce nectar that draws in pollinators, such as bees, and other insects, which attract insect eating birds. Sparrows, chats, and orioles, may even nest among it's branches."
Wild Daffodil
Wild Daffodil. Click to expand.
Native to Western Europe, this bright yellow flower can be found in forests, grasslands, and rocky terrains. The bulbs and leaves are poisonous when ingested so keep you pets from munching!
Red Raspberry
Red Raspberry. Click to expand.
"Perennial forest shrub with elongated, thorny stems. The plant produces small fruit that has a distinct aroma and sweet & sour taste.
Eastern redbud
Eastern redbud. Click to expand.
"A small understory tree native to North America. In Spring or early summer clusters of purple-pink flowers appear on bare branches and sometimes on the trunk. The characteristic seed pod reveals that Eastern redbud belongs to the legume family, which makes it cousin to peas, and locust trees."
Fennel Greens Sounds
Fennel Greens Sounds. Click to expand.
https://soundcloud.com/amyreidmusic/fennel-432022
Scallions
Scallions. Click to expand.
Homestead Harvest Garden is a co-op community garden operating for over 20 years! To get involved stop by on a Saturday/ Sunday morning or email homesteadharvestbaltimore@gmail.com
Wavescape 3.0 2022
Wavescape 3.0 2022. Click to expand.
The mission of Wavescape 3.0 was to bring people together across artistic disciplines and other boundaries/ barriers unifying Waverly and Better Waverly through a mini arts festival.
SSI Film Screening
SSI Film Screening. Click to expand.
Click the link above to watch a short film about the Baltimore Street Studio Sessions edited by Jishnu Guha!
Street Studio House Sessions
Collaborative track created by Cathy Cooke and Kata Frederick using found sound, acoustic instruments and bio data from houseplants
Street Studio House Session 2
Track made by Grant aka Alienood, Joey, and Pangelica using VSTs, money tree vibrations, vocals, and other objects.
901 Arts Street Studios
Over the course of two sessions, young people from 901 Arts collected bio data, assigned instruments to different plants, and made beats from found sound recorded during a work/ play session in the field.
Field Studio
What was planned to be a day of exploring the environmental ecology of the landscape through sound turned into: -exploring collective sound making within a public green space. -observing and identifying human created threats to the ecosystem -organizing a garbage clean up and dividing up tasks among community members for a sustainable system of care for each other & co-inhabitants
Paradise Apple
An apple tree that produces "juicy fruits that taste like paradise to a variety of bird species. The tree's flowers produce nectar that draws in pollinators, such as bees, and other insects, which attract insect eating birds. Sparrows, chats, and orioles, may even nest among it's branches."
Endangered Species since 2007
Poem by Mathilde Blind
Blossom of the apple trees! Mossy Trunks all gnarled an hoary, Grey boughs tipped with rose-veined glory, Clustered petals soft as fleece Garlanding old apple trees!
Wild Daffodil
Native to Western Europe, this bright yellow flower can be found in forests, grasslands, and rocky terrains. The bulbs and leaves are poisonous when ingested so keep you pets from munching!
Poem by William Wordsworth
For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.
To get involved visit the garden on a Saturday/ Sunday morning or email homesteadharvestbaltimore@gmail.com
Red Raspberry
"Perennial forest shrub with elongated, thorny stems. The plant produces small fruit that has a distinct aroma and sweet & sour taste.
Appropriate for pollinator gardens and attracts birds. Plant with rosemary or mint to deter unwanted pests."
Eastern redbud
"A small understory tree native to North America. In Spring or early summer clusters of purple-pink flowers appear on bare branches and sometimes on the trunk. The characteristic seed pod reveals that Eastern redbud belongs to the legume family, which makes it cousin to peas, and locust trees."
Fennel Greens Sounds
Homestead Harvest Community Garden
Scallions
Homestead Harvest Garden is a co-op community garden operating for over 20 years! To get involved stop by on a Saturday/ Sunday morning or email homesteadharvestbaltimore@gmail.com
Wavescape 3.0 2022
The mission of Wavescape 3.0 was to bring people together across artistic disciplines and other boundaries/ barriers unifying Waverly and Better Waverly through a mini arts festival.
SSI Film Screening
Click the link above to watch a short film about the Baltimore Street Studio Sessions edited by Jishnu Guha!
Better Waverly is a neighborhood located within the settlement, Baltimore, Maryland that occupies the indigenous territory; Piscataway and the Piscataway Conoy Tribal Nations. This project acknowledges the Tribal governments and their roles today in taking care of these lands.
Be sure to check out community-based visual artist, Ashley Minner's Mapping the Reservation Project; "an in-progress project, chronicling the history and continued presence of American Indian peoples in what is today known as East Baltimore, with a particular focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."