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sonic geographies


SP 2026 | Bay Area Creeks
  1. Catherine Arcaris
  2. Ethan Radley Bungay
  3. Gabriela Camacho
  4. Sarai Castañeda
  5. Aaron Chin
  6. Alondra Garcia Sifuentes
  7. Armando Gutierrez
  8. Nadia Kuxhausen
  9. Arfa Momin
  10. Shunny Murase
  11. Connor Quinn
  12. Mahima Shyno
  13. Macy Wang

SP 2025 | Bay Area Creeks
  1. Jeannie Eom
  2. Zach Thorpe
  3. Kenza Habibi
  4. Laura Liu
  5. Soomin Cho
  6. Emma Kraus
  7. Stella Singer
  8. Jade Gao
  9. Johann Gatty
  10. Christina Jiang
Mark


catherine lucinda arcaris | spatial storytelling | @catarcaris.art



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a podcast episode for the sonic geographies creative field course







an audio-visual exploration of bay area communities


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our     sonic exploration of     creeks has led me to         uncover     various facets of the     history,     humanity, and originality of     bay area communities. by     utilizing hand-held     sound recorders, sonic geographies     weaves         through downtowns,     community gardens,     senior citizen centers,     historic highways, and     transit stations, and     begs us to inquire about the     people who     maintain the     flair and vitality of     these places of gathering.


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tune into this episode if you’re looking to learn a thing or two about:

  1. how a tattoo artist became an aquarium owner

  2. what a skate-shop emoplyee loves most about oakland

  3. what the inside of a vet clinic sounds like

  4. how one entrepreneur is mentoring young kids on creativity, love, and financial literacy

  5. a pawnshop owner’s friendship with the mayor

  6. lots of barking dogs


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sound-recording    as an artform  informs   a     distinctive     approach to understanding     urban and rural     society that is extremeley     observational—it requires     one to be quiet, engaging of     the senses, and organic     encounters of space based     on one’s physical     movement within it.


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recording sound has prompted me to seek
an understanding of place that is directly rooted in lived experience.

















with this project i was never “looking” for anything beyond simply a good conversation.





























it prompted me to seek something deeper, something that could only be exposed through careful listening, intentional prompting, and natural curiosity.


























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