Listening Field Kickoff Event
Saturday, June 20, 2026
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Creekside Pavilion (1803 NW 114th Street, Clive)
🎧 Bring headphones!
👟 Wear good walking shoes
📱 Download echoes app
Join us to kickoff Listening Field! Meet the artists Anna Gebhardt and Philip Rabalais, enjoy refreshments, and learn about the piece! The group will end the evening with a walk to an installation point, so bring your headphones and walking shoes! More Info
Artists:
Anna Gebhardt & Philip Rabalais
Site:
Greenbelt Park
Located at 10490 Maddox Parkway website
Open daily 5:30 AM – 10:30 PM
About:
Annalibera presents a site-responsive sound installation inviting visitors to engage in contemplative listening experiences blending natural soundscapes with original compositions. Inspired by native Iowa plant species, the recordings honor the land’s ecological and cultural histories, reflecting themes of displacement, memory, and resilience.
To listen, you will need:
You will need:
A smart phone
Headphones or earbuds
1. Download the ECHOES sound walk app on your phone.
1. Download Listening Field on the ECHOES app.
3. Put your headphones on.
4. Enter, wander, and listen.
Annalibera presents a site-responsive sound installation inviting visitors to engage in contemplative listening experiences blending natural soundscapes with original compositions. Inspired by native Iowa plant species, the recordings honor the land’s ecological and cultural histories, reflecting themes of displacement, memory, and resilience.
“What will not bring me, more certainly than before, to where I am is of no use to me.”
Wendell Berry, —A Native Hill
Anna Gebhardt is a musician and sound artist living in Des Moines, Iowa. Her work blends elements of modern popular genres, folk, improvisational, and chamber music, as well as field recordings and noise. Integrating these with classical training as a pianist and singer, her music is a gateway to intangible aspects of the human experience, including identity, place, memory, and the power of nature.
Philip Rabalais is an electronic musician and filmmaker living in Iowa City, Iowa. Explorations in music and sound opened Rabalais up to a creative world that eventually bloomed out into filmmaking as well. His movies take a poetic approach to reality via open-ended narratives, formal experimentation, and significant collaboration amongst cast and crew. Rabalais received an MFA in Film and Video Production from the University of Iowa in 2020. He was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 Faces of Independent Film” for 2024.
