The Camden Public Library carries on its Maritime Month tradition this April by once again featuring a month-long exhibit from the Penobscot Marine Museum and hosting a series of themed programs. On Thursday, April 3, at 6:30 p.m., the library will host sound artist Dianne Ballon for a virtual presentation, "Lost and Found: Sounds of the Maine Coast."

This program will take place via Zoom only. To register and receive the link to attend, visit librarycamden.org or click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yDbO0MRYT7SeSPseais4-Q]

This presentation is drawn from Dianne Ballon’s exhibit in collaboration with Maine Maritime Museum. The exhibit featured her field recordings of Maine's working harbors, boatyards, and coastal waters, as well as historical maritime objects from the museum’s collection, including bells, whistles and early foghorns.

Viewers and listeners of this program will experience and be encouraged to think about soundscapes along Maine’s coast from artistic, scientific, technological, historical, and personal perspectives.

To experience the high fidelity of sound that will be presented, headphones or good quality speakers are highly recommended, though anyone will be able to enjoy the variety of this presentation through their computer so long as it has sound capabilities, according to CPL, in a news release.

Dianne Ballon (pronounced BAL’en) is a sound artist from Portland. She received a Maine Artist Fellowship from the Maine Arts Commission. Her sound works have aired on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Her coastal sound work was featured in Yankee and Down East magazines and on the podcasts Radio Maine, The Natural Curiosity Project and Light Hearted: the Official Podcast of the United States Lighthouse Society. Her field recording, Boats Creaking at a Dock in Iceland, was awarded at an international radio art competition. She produced audio for the national exhibition: The Marines and Tet: The Battle That Changed the Vietnam War. At Shenandoah National Park, she was awarded an Artist-in-Residency. At the National Audio Theatre Festivals, she produced radio theatre. She produced audio for Tactile Images, a company that creates fine art for museums that is accessible to the blind, through touch and sound.

At the University of Maine at Augusta, Ballon taught audio production and radio theatre. Currently, she teaches audio through Maine College of Art & Design, SALT Institute for Documentary Studies. For more about her work, visit: www.dianneballonsound.com