THE WORLD LISTENING PROJECT (WLP) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization devoted to understanding the world and its natural environment, societies and cultures through the practices of listening and field recording. The WLP was founded in 2008 and is...
You are invited to participate in World Listening Day 2015, an annual global event held on July 18. The purposes of World Listening Day are to: Celebrate the listening practices of the world and the ecology of its acoustic...
Some sounds take you by surprise while others make you work to hear them. Knowing that my first blog was coming up I thought I’d write about the listening experience that has made the most impression on me so...
Reflecting on several installation works presented at last month’s MONA FOMA (Festival of Music and Art), this post will consider works by Susan Philipsz, Robin Fox, and Vicky Browne and Darren Seltmann in terms of ‘hearing in sound’. In...
Despite a flowering, of sorts, in public art practice, policy and debate, publicly situated sound works seem rare. It’s perhaps because, as noted in an earlier post, our thinking about the practices that constitute public space tend to prioritise...
The Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology and World Listening Project continues its partnership with the National Park Service and Sixth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival to host a concert...
Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology and The World Listening Project are seeking...
"Soundwalkers" from Raquel Castro.