Sound Matters - Listening for a better world.

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Everything Sounds is a podcast and short-form radio program exploring the role of sound in art, science, history, culture, and our everyday lives. 
Even silence has a sound.

I’ve read a lot of books and I've done a little radio... I play with multimedia.

Our podcasts, both hosted by Ben Luke, take a deep dive into the art world. On the award-winning The Week in Art, sponsored by Christie's, The Art Newspaper team picks apart the week's big stories with the help of special guests. The A brush with… podcast features exclusive conversations with leading artists, exploring their work, life and cultural experiences.

it's been a long time since i've made sounds... 
this is just a little place to share some recent play and experiments... 


Anna Friz is a radio, sound and media artist, who creates broadcasts, compositions, installations, short films, and live performances. She continually returns to themes of transmission ecologies and the intimacies of signal space, environment and land, infrastructures, time perception and durational performance, and critical fictions. Anna is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, and has been a Rydell Visual Arts Fellow, a Hellman Fellow, and a Prix Palma Ars Acoustica awardee, along with numerous grants and commissions. Her radio artworks have been commissioned by national public radio in Canada, Australia, Austria, Finland, Germany, Denmark, and Spain, and heard on public and independent airwaves all over the world. Presentation in recent years include Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, Austria), The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, the New York Times Magazine, esc Median Kunst Labor (Graz, Austria), Tsonami Festival de Arte Sonoro (Valparaíso and Santiago, Chile), Heroines of Sound Festival, Berlin Germany), Soundhouse at the Barbican (London UK), Espace Multimedia Gantner (Belfort France), and RE:SOUND Festival (Aalborg, Denmark), and Bienal Sur, Argentina. Anna is currently Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at University of California, Santa Cruz. 
http://nicelittlestatic.com

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 supported by the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology, a non-profit membership organization affiliated with the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology.

The WLP maintains a website and online forum about its artistic and educational activities. These include the use of radio and web-based technologies, conducting public workshops, forums, and lectures, as well as participating in exhibitions, symposiums, and festivals. Our Board of Directors consists of esteemed artists and scientists active around the world. To learn more and become involved in the WLP’s activities please subscribe to our discussion group, follow us on Twitter, Vimeo, and “Like” our Facebook Page.

I'm fascinated by the voices of the more-than-human world that manifest in 'wild' sounds and music.  The work presented here is a result of my personal search for a deeper connection to a world that is fast disappearing - a world that is being silenced by human technological hubris.  I have spent many years playing didgeridoo around the world and it is my chosen instrument for exploring my connection to a world that still has 'wild' places left to explore.  I hope you enjoy the sounds that connect to a more-than-human world.

Civilization is a project about New York City by Lucas Mascatello and Richard Turley

https://civilization.bigcartel.com/

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