Dawn at Chicago's Magic Hedge

Summer 2009: A field recording from of The Magic Hedge, where Chicago receives the dawn and migratory birds in lakefront silence.

2009 ShortDocs Challenge: Chicago Sound Drops

2009 / Noe Cuellar / TCF, USA

Summer 2009: A field recording from of The Magic Hedge, where Chicago receives the dawn and migratory birds in lakefront silence.

Commissioned by Third Coast for the Chicago Sound Drops collection - short audio works that conjure the city through sound, story, and imagination.

Hear all 13 Chicago Sound Drops.


produced by

Noe Cuellar

Noé Cuéllar is a sound artist and photographer originally from Laredo, TX; graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work comprises electro-acoustic music and text composition.


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