Cincinnati Sounds: Exploring a Musical City's Spaces, Places, and Sounds

Cincinnati Sounds is a week-long residency during which visiting scholars immerse themselves in experiential site-based learning. Participants investigate how Cincinnati landmarks – some still vibrant and carefully preserved, others linger only in public memory – both shape and are shaped by music and sound, exploring themes of education, instruments and sacred places, urban planning, performance, and social justice. Daily explorations through presentations, discussions, site visits, methods of storytelling, and instruction on mapping sound allow participants to hone tools for research and teaching about the connections between music, sound, and landmarks that they can adapt to their own urban spaces.