Calling All Ears Collective (CAEC): Proposals Due By Or Before May 7th, 2024

May/June 2024 - Brood XIII and XIX Cicadas’ Emergence
 
In May/June 2024, American periodical cicadas — seven subspecies of Brood XIII and Brood XIX — will hatch simultaneously, a convergent phenomenon that occurs once every 221 years. The seven different species chorusing (each with a unique song) is an occasion to reflect on our interconnections with that which is other than human. The distribution of Brood XIX (17-year cicada) will range from central Illinois, around Springfield to east and further north as far as Chicago. Brood XIII (13-year cicada) will extend from Springfield into the southern portions of the state and westerly into the northeast.

We ask potential contributors, participants, and the curious to provide us with the following information. Please include:

1. A brief idea about how you see yourself or your group interacting with the Broods, XIII, and/or XIX.
2. Your intent to cooperate and collaborate with CAEC on-site, or your design that is closer to home for local travel? Be specific knowing that flexibility is part of the process due to the timing when and exactly where the cicadas emerge from underground. Ask questions that you have about how you might want to contribute and participate.
3. Flexible time frame to work with weather and soil temperature that suits the cicadas. Some of us will be on location south of Springfield from May 27 – June 5. There will most likely be projects occurring before and after this time period, pre, and post-emergence.
4. An example(s) of past projects, interest in cicadas, and/or related experience.
5. Your takeaway or what results you would like to learn from the broods? What are the cicadas saying to you?
6. Your best contact information.
7. **Send your materials to Stephen Bradley ([[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])) and Matthew Wolkow ([[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]))** by or before May 7th, 2024. General inquiries are welcome. We will respond within a few days of your submission.

*CAEC has emerged through the efforts of Matthew Wolkow (filmmaker), Stephen Bradley (experimental media sound artist-educator), and the Midwest Society of Acoustic Ecology (MSAE), Chicago. We seek to build to include arts community groups, cultural and community science groups, local historians, entomologists, ecologists, and curious participants. Matthew Wolkow will document and direct a feature film with Stephen Bradley, project coordinator, creating field recordings, and sound compositions.*

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