Organized in collaboration with the Walking Festival of Sound, Reveil is a 24+1-hour live audio broadcast that circles the globe, tracking sunrise on International Dawn Chorus Day (the first weekend of May) and featuring live streams of morning birdsong from diverse locations worldwide.

Produced by Soundcamp and the Acoustic Commons network, this sound installation features live streams of morning birdsong from diverse locations worldwide and airs on Resonance Extra and Wave Farm. This year, the stream will be broadcast through the Smith Campus Center’s sound system, filling the Harvard Commons with the bird songs of dawn from across the globe.

Coordinators: Jacek Smolicki (Loeb/ ArtLab fellow), Bree Edwards (ArtLab), Grant Smith (Acoustic Commons), Julie Crites, Megan LaFoschia, and Lara Adams (Harvard Commons Spaces)

Walking Festival of Sound is a transdisciplinary event exploring the role of walking through and listening to our everyday surroundings. It combines a number of free and public events, including walking performances, walking seminars, and listening sessions, all taking place in diverse public spaces and online. Walking Festival of Sound facilitates a meeting point for the international network of practitioners and researchers interested in sound and walking. Through diverse events, we explore how walking and listening practices can augment and challenge the way we perceive, navigate through, and care for our shared environments. In 2019, the festival took place in two cities: Stockholm, Sweden, and Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. In April 2021, the festival moved to Krakow, Poland, and Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2022, the festival visited Seoul, Korea, and Vancouver, Canada. Zurich, Switzerland, was the festival’s site in 2024. In 2026, the festival takes place in Boston and Cambridge, USA. The festival was founded and is directed by Jacek Smolicki (2026, Loeb/ ArtLab Fellow) and Tim Shaw.