White Noise
Day
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Meet
6:00 PM
Rolls
7:00 PM
Ends
8:00 PM
Where
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Lovejoy Fountain Park
202 SW Harrison St, Portland, OR 97201 · Portland Downtown
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- A Loop B Loop NS SW 3rd & Harrison · 2 min walk
- MAX Orange Lincoln St/SW 3rd Ave MAX Station · 2 min walk
- MAX Yellow PSU South/SW 5th & Jackson MAX Stn · 4 min walk
Distance
3.9 mi
Route
Point to point
Audience
General
Terrain
Rolling
Surface
Paved
About
Shhhhhhhhh! Noise pollution is an invisible health hazard, so we will create a fleeting refuge: masking the urban din with cascading waves of white noise.
Find Your Flavor
Pink, brownian, blue — there is a sub-genre of white noise for everyone. Explore the spectrum: chilly, chalky, oceanic?
- Bring a speaker and your choice of white noise (digital streams, self-generated, analog radio static, recordings of wind, the background radiation of the cosmos, etc).
- Play contributions simultaneously, an ever-shifting timbre of complex random-like sound.
- Save music, hollering, and bell ringing for other rides, this is an intentional respite from "signals."
- Prepare to adjust your volume to comfortably drown out background sounds.
Meet at Lovejoy Fountain, a natural white noise source, to tune our blend. Then flow like a mechanical fountain through Downtown. We’ll conclude at Duckworth Dock for a scattering sunset and river swim, emerging from our noise cocoon to rejoin the dynamic cacophony refreshed and recalibrated.