This book on Sound and Detention is coming out digitally this week – with a short radio interlude from me on geopoetics, static, longing, and resistance

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sound-and...

Animals react to secret sounds from plants, say scientists: animals react to sounds being made by plants, new research suggests, opening up the possibility that an invisible ecosystem might exist between them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sonic Justice with Earshot : Online workshop with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Caline Matar, Fabio Cervi, and Adnan Naqvi January 5 to January 8 2026 #sound #environment #activism
www.campfr.com/online/earshot

Preparing the slides for this Thursday's online event 'Hearing the past: methods and explorations'. I'll be presenting online together with Amy Woods as part of the IET series of events and produced by the wonderful @barwickgreen.bsky.social
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Poetics of Listening, with Brandon LaBelle #criticallistening www.lacasaencendida.es/en/culture/p...

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Special issue of Social Text – "Sound Carries: Coloniality, Race, and the Spatial Politics of Representation" – is out now! With great essays by @sarasalem.bsky.social @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social @rikjaz.bsky.social Les Back and Stevie Back (and me) 😊

read.dukeupress.edu/social-text

Why make an exhibition about noise? What makes it a “post-AI” show? I wrote up a walk-through of our recently opened “Signal to Noise” exhibition at the NCM in Melbourne. mail.cyberneticforests.com/possible-noi...

Situated Listenings 2 April to 10 December La Casa Encendida Madrid and Online #criticallistening #sound #ecologies
www.lacasaencendida.es/en/cursos/si...

Researchers created sound that can bend itself through space - the technology that creates localised pockets of sound, allowing audio to be directed to a specific listener without the use of headphones or disturbing others. Fascinating:

www.downtoearth.org.in/science-tech...

Thank you so much to everyone who followed the thread along. Hope you found it interesting ☺️ If you'd like to find out more, these case studies (and quite a few more) are included in my book 'Sonic Pasts: acoustical heritage and historical soundscapes' www.routledge.com/Sonic-Pasts-...

It’s Wednesday, so time for a thread on ‘Sonic Pasts: acoustical heritage and historical soundscapes’ for anybody interested 😊 Today I’ll focus on my analysis of mentions/lack of mentions of sound within #UNESCO World Heritage Lists, and highlighting some of the case studies #heritage #soundscapes

Lovely video about the Migration Sounds collaboration between our team at COMPAS and @citiesandmemory.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbcU... - really worth a watch.

Colliding icebergs and chirping seals: Polar ocean sounds are reimagined in art-science collaboration - lovely feature on our Polar Sounds project on Mongabay: news.mongabay.com/2024/12/coll... @hifmb.bsky.social @mongabay.bsky.social

I’m not one for wearing my heart on my sleeve in posts, but this feels important. I'm starting a blog about contemplative field recording. The story begins with an ending - that of my FE teaching career… #mentalhealth #fieldrecording #contemplation #mindfulness
www.anoisysilence.com/post/contemp...

“Bad data is worse than no data, and it’s very easy to collect bad data!” In this Smart Forests Radio episode, Lindsey Rustad discusses real-time environmental monitoring in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest and beyond: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/lin...