Listening to Ballona: the Ballona/Guashna Project

Listening to Ballona is a series of installations inspired by long term bioacoustic recordings captured by several Cornell Ornithology Labs Swift One audio monitors  I deployed at Los Angeles's Ballona Wetlands since April 2022; chronologically:

9/22/22: 24 hours in the Ballona Freshwater Marsh

Fulcrum Festival  for the Arts & Sciences /18th St Arts Center, Santa Monica

8/13-9/3/23: Listening to Ballona at the Natural History Museum of the Future

Time To Listen Festival, Akademie der Künste - Berlin

6/3-7/24: Listening to Ballona at the Natural History Museum of the Future

The Nature of Cities Conference & Festival, Berlin 

2/7/25: 24 hours in the Ballona Freshwater Marsh

Listening to Ballona, Installation & Symposium

in collaboration with Deike Peters, Soka U.

Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo (CA) 

Audio recordings of the Ballona wetlands and its installations may be heard from the Ballona/Guashna Project on Soundcloud link below.

Ballona (pronounced Bay-oh-na) is how Western settlers of Guashna call this native Tongva-Gabrielino land.