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Take time to listen across borders and boundaries.
July 18 is World Listening Day hosted by the World Listening Project. 2022 topic was ‘Listening across boundaries.’ Organizers encouraged audiophiles to host local, public events around the globe. Among the highlights: the curated 10-hour stream.
Planeta.com recaps the event on this page and we have curated our own Twitter moment.
Key Links
worldlisteningproject.org
Registered events
Discord
Facebook
Facebook Group
Twitch
YouTube
@World_Listening
Questions // Preguntas
- What is a favorite sound you have heard today? // ¿Cuál es un sonido favorito que has escuchado hoy?
- How are you celebrating World Listening Day? // ¿Cómo estás celebrando el Día Mundial de la Escucha?
- Who do you listen with? // ¿Con quién escuchas?
- Is anyone hosting soundwalks? // ¿Alguien está organizando paseos sonoros?
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Background
The day features livestreaming audio, contests, and listening-focused walks around the world which focus attention on improving listening skills and conserving critical soundscapes. July 18 was chosen because it is the birthday of the Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer, one of the founders of the Acoustic Ecology movement.
Listeners of all kinds are invited to host and participate in three activity types: curated 24-hour live stream program, self-organized and initiated local live and public events in your own locale, and/or your own personal celebrations.
2022
This year’s theme, created by Dr Heather Spence – linktr.ee/heatherspence – @heatherspence – is “Listening Across Boundaries.”
Elsewhere on the Web
MV88 User Guide
naisa.ca (Australia) – performances – @NAISASoundArt
Jalisco Radio (Mexico) – Facebook – Flickr
Radio Arte (Italy) – https://www.facebook.com/radioarte.it
Pipestone National Monument (USA) – Facebook
corkcity.ie/en/kinship (Ireland)
aporee.org – @unosonic
wavefarm.org – @wgxc
Headlines
Park Board highlights artist residency this World Listening Day (Vancouver, Canada)
Videos
Dusk at Warbler’s Roost: an intersensory improvisation by Ellen Waterman
Essay
2022’s World Listening Day (July 18) asked us to “listen across boundaries.” This brings up fond memories of our old Zenith Royal Trans-Oceanic shortwave radio and the ever-changing options depending on climate conditions. 50 years later we have Radio Garden and Radio Paradise, two personal faves.
Earlier this year Las Vegas’ public radio station KNPR invited listeners to complete a fairly lengthy survey about the practicalities of audio listening / media consumption. 99% of the way I listen to local radio stations is by chance when I am in the car.
As to nearby natural and cultural soundscapes, Las Vegas is a world yet to be explored via soundwalks, though that could be on the agenda if there is interest.
Today I think ‘listening across boundaries’ is the search for third spaces / third places – like the library, market, or dog park – in which conversation with other humans and listening in particular – can expand my horizons. We don’t know what we don’t know until someone else expounds or inquires about that which is in our blind spot.
We have the capacity to be active listeners – enjoying the soundwalk or podcast or symphony or soundscape. We can be present in this most curious of senses.
Previously
Planeta.com