Diamond Beach Marina is a boat house community and a multi use gathering space for rest, recreation, and art. It occupies a small portion of the south bank of the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, Pa as it winds its way towards the Ohio river and then on to the Mississippi. There is a wide spectrum of sound here to explore. Our industrial infrastructure is deeply enmeshed in the ecosystem immediately around us, from the high traffic roads and low traffic train tracks that snake through the valley and cinch us to the water, the highland park dam about a half mile down river, and the cities water treatment plant across the river. Still, the marina and its immediate surroundings have a large area of undeveloped shore land, so they  are a great place for listening to the many birds that make their home here, the beavers, the groundhogs and squirrels, the dirt, the water itself and the hum of life below surface, in conjunction with the human chatter.