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KING TIDE Observations, Interventions + Parties 
Summer/Fall 2014 

Happy to be part of a growing group of artists and citizen scientists staging interventions + throwing parties around the annual King Tide events here in Portland, Maine. King Tide is a popular term for an especially high tide, such as a perigean spring tide. King Tide is not a scientific term, nor is it used in a scientific context, but is a way that folks are describing especially high tides that take place a few times per year. The term has now come to be used as a way for citizens to engage and address sea level rise in their communities. King Tides provide us with a glimpse into the future – both here in Portland, Maine and around the world.

The King Tide Events invite folks to come on out to observe and engage with the King Tides. We're creating art, sculpture, theater, creative documentary interviews and site specific events to document and share the story of how the places which are flooded during King Tides will be flooded more often in the future - as sea levels rise. These are the places weinhabit, work in, and love. The King Tide events build community engagement through original site-specific art that creates dialogue, brings the community together and inspires solutions.

Inundated Observation Shack at King Tide BYO Chair Party July 14, 2014
12 Midnight-2am at Cove Street/Marginal Way (Portland, Maine)
Photo credit: Liz Bieber

KING TIDE BYO CHAIR PARTY
On July 14, 2014 (during the astronomically high King Tide that occurred from MIDNIGHT – 2 AM) we  organized the King Tide BYO Chair Party. The King Tide BYO Chair Party was both a happening and a collaboration of artists across multiple disciplines who aim to cooperate with businesses, cultural organizations, educational institutions neighborhood organizations and municipalities to host situational events (parties) to observe and interact with King Tides, the highest tides of the year here in Portland. 

The  July 14th, 2014 King Tide BYO Chair Party took place at the corner of Cove Street and Marginal Way (in East Bayside) and included observation of the rising tide and the flooding of Marginal Way and arts interventions as well as street theater written by Megan Grumbling (performed by members of the theater collective Lorem Ipsum); puppetry by Blainor McGough (Executive Director of Mayo Street Arts); trailers of flood movies by Jan Piribeck (University of Southern Maine Professor of Digital Art and Foundations) screened in a temporary outdoor UHAUL truck cinema; original creative documentary audio by Caroline Losneck, and a sculptural Observation Shack made from salvaged and reclaimed materials created by Maine-based artists Christopher Byron, Caroline Losneck and Kelly Rioux.

King Tide Audio
As part of the event I was happy to interview five people that live and work in the East Bayside neighborhood that have witnessed the rising tides during high tides. The interviews included people that work at: UHaul, CrossFit, and Whole Foods. From these documentary interviews, I edited and produced 3 original audio tracks, which debuted at the night of the King Tide BYO Chair Party

The main audio piece I created was based on some interviews with Al Brule, a Hitch Mechanic that has worked at UHaul for over 25 years. Participants in the King Tide BYO Chair Party listened to Al’s audio when it played in the back of the Uhaul truck (we turned into a temporary outdoor cinema + installation).

Al Brule, UHaul Hitch Mechanic for 26 years. (Portland, Maine)
Photo credit: Caroline Losneck

I'll post some of the King Tide audio soon. -CL


Camden International Film Festival - Fyke Tide Installation


Fall 2013

I'm excited to be producing an interactive multimedia installation with Christoph Gelfand (True Life Media) as part of the Camden International Film Festival (2013) this year. 

Saturday night (9/28/13) at 10pm @ Bicknell Factory Building in Rockland, ME, we're unveiling a version of our installation about the elusive baby eels + men who fish um', called Fyke Tide.





Fyke Tide is a mysterious journey along the waters of the Presumpscot River in Southern Maine. Fyke Tide is inspired by Maine’s elver eel fishermen and the eels themselves, a species shrouded in myth. Documented between March and June of 2013 by audio producer Caroline Losneck and documentary filmmaker Christoph Gelfand, Fyke Tide is a dark journey through the fyke nets and beyond – an illuminating glimpse into the lives of fishermen during a season in Maine’s second-most lucrative fishery. Combining the rich sounds, imagery, and tall tales from the river and the men who fish it, the installation conveys the dedicated routine and longstanding traditions of the eel fishery.



New Interactive Documentary 
Spring 2013

Excited to be working with True Life Media on a multimedia doc project, based right here in coastal Maine. A gold rush, of sorts. Please stay tuned for more news soon.

Dancing in the Dark, uh, Light (Boston)
Late Fall 2012



Had Me an Installation 
August 2012

Temporary Homes - a Mixed Media Sound Installation 
by Caroline Losneck & Friends
@ DIRIGIMUS Collective on Historic Thompson's Point
w/ Music by RSO, Rural Ghosts, and Samuel James
August 3, 2012


Temporary Homes is part of a larger body of work about the people living outside, in temporary homes adjacent to the Thompson's Point area, including some of the folks who lived in the old Hobo Jungle (which was destroyed when the new Mercy Hospital Fore River Campus was built.) It's a partial documentation of how the proposed Forefront development plans will impact the homes and lives of some of the people who make home in transient and mobile outdoor camps.


Temporary Homes is part autobiographical, part oral history, part tall tale, part intervention, and part documentation of the unique, historic and human ecosystem that serves to be lost when the 27.56-acre crescent-shaped peninsula, Thompson’s Point, gets demolished.

Thompson’s Point is a threatened ecosystem. Surrounded on three sides by the Fore River, the peninsula is a one of a kind cultural, historical, human, and ecological power spot in Portland, Maine – and it’s about to be lost. Come on down and hear the voices of some of the folks living in the rough near Thompson's Point. We're talking about skunks, groundhogs, and songs around the campfire!

Thanks to ya'all who made it down to Thompson's Point and had some fun, while it lasts.


**Only "Occasional, transient bald eagles" down here, folks! 
If you believe that,
I've got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.



Temporary Home by Chris Wright in Situ. Open for guests.



Got Me a Sound Mentor
Spring 2012

Good news! I am going to be working (in a somewhat official mentor and mentee relationship) with the amazing and inspiring sound artist Dianne Ballon. She lives right here in Maine and I am really happy and honored to be working with her. Excited.


Cartagena, Colombia!
October 2011

Cartagena de Indias Colombia es muy bueno! Just returned from a fantastic trip to Cartagena, Colombia. Cartagena is the fifth largest city in Colombia, and it was a pretty amazing trip. (I didn't take any photos or record any sound, you'll just have to take my word for it.) Dancing runs in the blood there, and starts young and the music (called Champeta, from West African traditions) often seems like an amazing hybrid of different traditions. I want to go back soon.




HarvestWorks/AIR Sounds Elemental: Metal
June 2011 


Just returned from an inspiring and fun week-long experimental sound workshop put on by the creative and kind folks at HarvestWorks Digital Media Arts Center (NYC) and AIR (Association for Independents in Radio). The intensive was designed to provide media producers with a unique opportunity to explore unconventional approaches to assembling sound and telling story. My session focused on metal, and I was one of eight producers enjoying the week of  listening, visiting audio studios, and massive unrelenting experimentation in all things sound. All of the producers were great and I'm looking forward to assembling sound in new and interesting ways using what I learned during the Sound Intensive.