Norman Long

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Norman W. Long (b. 1973, Chicago, IL) is a sound artist/designer/composer based in Chicago,
IL. His current work focuses on sound art production within the larger context of landscape. He
has exhibited and/or performed in galleries in Chicago, Ithaca, New York, London, and the San
Francisco Bay Area. The processes involved in his practice lie within the area of field recording,
electro-acoustic composition and dub technique. His art/studio practice involves gardening,
collecting, performing and recording to create, objects, environments, situations in which the
artist and audience are engaged in a dialogue about memory, space, value, silence and the
invisible. It is his desire that his practice offers us a space to consider our relationship to sound
via social, ecological structures, our interiority and to affirm our existence.
Long has performed and exhibited at Yale University’s Center for Collaborative Arts & Media in
Newhaven, High Zero Festival in Baltimore, as well as the Experimental Sound Studio, Kavi
Gupta Gallery, The Renaissance Society, Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago Cultural
Center, and the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial all in Chicago. Long 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. He has
released his compositions on labels such as 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 latest solo release on LINE.