Marc Levitt’s Audio Winds #2; Stories in the Sand: An Audio Art Walk Along Narragansett Beach will debut at Narragansett Beach on Saturday, October 22nd between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
AudioWinds #2 is an audio enhanced walk along Narragansett Beach that reveals some of the conversations, sounds and music that might have been heard over the last one hundred and thirty years. Available on the web site as a download and available on the date above at the South Parking lot entrance to the beach along with MP3 player you can borrow, is suitable for ages 12 and up.
From conversations about tearing down the village at Narragansett, to romantic yearnings, to conversations about the Depression, these snapshots from our times are joined with the music of the beach’s history heard through transistor radios, boom boxes and seaside orchestras.

"I don’t come to this project by accident. Narragansett Beach is ‘my’ beach. I walk here, think here, eat here, swim here and talk (lots of) here. I’ve been at this beach in the heat of the summer, at 5:30 in the morning and at midnight. I have been here in all seasons, in the hear of summer, after hurricanes and during snowstorms. I have seen the waves crash into the parking lot and over the sea wall and I have watched blue fish swim next to my feet. With AudioWinds #2; Stories in the Sand I celebrate this beach – thank you for joining this celebration by now turning Narragansett Beach into a site for audio art."

Idea, script, production: Marc Levitt
Sound engineer, editor and project advisor: James Moses
Curator: Viera Levitt

'Stories in the Sand': Artist explores history of beach through sound
By Doug Norris/Features Editor
Thursday, October 13, 2011, South County Independent



Download the flyer for AudioWinds #2 (pdf file)

Marc Levitt is a writer, storyteller, radio host and artist living in Wakefield, Rhode Island. His Audio Winds #1 was placed behind RISD’s Chace Center in Providence (May-July 2010) and used the sounds that could have been heard at that location over the last 500 as notes in an orchestration.

Funding for the project is provided in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and private funders and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, an independent state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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