Norman Long

Appears on:

• STRINNING – LONG – HEINEMANN
  Lines of Flight

Norman W. Long (b. 1973, Chicago, IL) is a sound artist, designer and composer based in Chicago. His current work focuses on sound art production within the larger context of landscape. He has exhibited and performed in galleries in Chicago, Ithaca, New York, London and the San Francisco Bay Area. The processes involved in his practice lie within the areas of field recording, electroacoustic composition and dub technique. His studio practice involves gardening, collecting, performing and recording to create objects, environments and situations in which artist and audience engage in a dialogue about memory, space, value, silence and the invisible. His work aims to create a space to consider our relationship to sound through social and ecological structures, interiority and the affirmation of existence.

Long has performed and exhibited at Yale University’s Center for Collaborative Arts & Media in New Haven, High Zero Festival in Baltimore, Experimental Sound Studio, Kavi Gupta Gallery, The Renaissance Society, the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Chicago Cultural Center and the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial. He has performed and toured with Angel Bat Dawid and the Brothahood, the Ali/Harris/Long/McKenna group, Honey Pot Performance Spectralina, Todd Carter, Xris Espinoza, Carol Genetti, Damon Locks, Jamal Moore, Tatsuya Nakatani, Joe Namy, Cristal Sabbagh, Ami Yamasaki and Sara Zalek. His compositions have been released on labels including Hausu Mountain, Reserve Matinee, LINE and Room40. Anemoi is the latest ensemble release with Ishmael Ali, William Harris and Wills McKenna. His solo album BLACK BROWN GRAY GREEN was released in September 2021 on Hausu Mountain, and Return and Recovery is his most recent solo release on LINE.