A sound installation showing four bottles on a table in the foreground, wires leading to a device in the mid ground and speakers in the back.

A composite of several of Sun Wei's performances and talks.

Sound artist Sun Wei will discuss "The Moment and Place of Listening" for the World Listening Project this Wednesday (7 am New York time, 7 pm Beijing time). You can register to attend via zoom here: linktr.ee/worldlistening

You’re invited to join us during “Moment and Place of Listening” with Sun Wei — Wednesday, March 25th at 7 p.m. (GMT+8) / 6 a.m. (GMT-5). Register for the program via linktr.ee/worldlistening

Sound gains its own flow from time; space becomes the extension of vibration, the shadow of listening.

NAISA Sound Byte 17 - Death as a natural transformation of energy and consciousness, not an end A climate change conversation with Canadian Sound Artists Claude Schryer, Azul Carolina Duque, Kenneth Newby and Wendelin Bartley

A transcript of the conversation has been added on the NAISA substack - open.substack.com/pub/naisasou...

Thank you, David!

I.C.E. agents, you need to re-think your life choices.

This photo gives new context to the line “Hang a shining star upon the highest bough” in that Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane song

I love this issue of SAGINAW, edited by David Harrison Horton. Grateful that two of my poems have been included therein. @unionherald.bsky.social

No More Kings YouTube video by Pavement - Topic

Pavement says, “No More Kings” youtu.be/KoJ2tOaqML0?si=ZQIAjzEeYjXaStQc

Abolish ICE. Abolish the DHS.

LAPD Won’t Do Immigration Enforcement — But Will Shoot You With Rubber Bullets for Protesting ICE LA’s sanctuary laws ban cops from helping ICE in most cases. But the LAPD was out in full force repressing protests against the raids.

LAPD Won’t Do Immigration Enforcement — But Will Shoot You With Rubber Bullets for Protesting ICE
theintercept.com/2025/06/10/l...

It was amazing to walk around at Cahokia Mounds State Park, to think that Indigenous people founded and built a huge urban settlement with dozens of platform mounds here a millennium ago.

Miles Davis statue and mural in Alton, IL. I’d driven downstate last Fri to attend my graduate commencement at McKendree U, wanted to stop in Miles’ hometown

We invite you to join WLP during its next Session on Listening—Tuesday, April 22nd (10 pm UTC+0 / 5 pm UTC-5). What can be done to cut through the noise of today’s world? How do we find truth and understanding amid the chaos? Register for this program at linktr.ee/worldlistening

“…I’m just not telling them what to do. You can interpret it however you want, but you know the basic idea of what it means, the basic idea of what all these signs and gestures mean, and you have to interpret it in every moment.” — Butch Morris bombmagazine.org/articles/199...

Looks like part of a fireplace grate or something that goes on a railroad track

Observatory Station: open call from Cities and Memory & Barbican Observatory Station is an open call for field recordings for a brand new installation at the Barbican Centre in May 2025.

📢 Would you like your field recordings to be heard at the iconic Barbican Centre in London? We’re hosting an exclusive call for our community to provide the recordings for a new commission as part of the Feel The Sound exhibition.

Submit recordings by 30 April 📆 citiesandmemory.com/observatory-...

Lynda Barry’s “Syllabus” is fantastic

Imagine if laws were passed based on what can empower people and make communities safer, rather than what profiteers and revanchist nuts want

How to Ruin a Country Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, ex

We’re joined by @stephenwalt.bsky.social discussing the unravelling of the US as the world's strongest economy is now an international outlier following an exodus of investors which has driven down the dollar as Brand America faces growing boycotts around the globe. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

Show Up Chicago · Indivisible Chicago The Blue Beginning chapter of Indivisible Chicago hosts this monthly community gathering/panel show/happy hour at Chicago's most highly evolved saloon. This month our guest speakers are **Ed Yohnka,**...

🍺🎙️ *Against the Law: Inside Trump's Attack on Law & Lawyers* Live panel discussion hosted at Hideout. This month, Show Up Chicago features Ed Yohnka of ACLU of IL and Professor Sheila Bedi, Community Justice & Civil Rights Clinic at Northwestern U law school. Monday, April 28th, 7 pm. Info/Sign-up:

NAISA is pleased to launch its 2025 Call For Submissions on the theme “Sound Culture.”
Deadline May 31, 2025.
Categories: Sound Art/Electroacoustic, Sound+Image, Radio/Transmission Art, Interactive Installation
naisa.ca/opportunitie...

getting ready #handsoff

WLP seeks practitioners to submit proposals for the Official 2025 World Listening Day Theme — one that cuts through the noise of today’s world, which encourages deep listening, meaningful communication and empathy. Have an idea? Submit it at the link below! worldlisteningday.org/wld25/

You're invited to join WLP for its next Session on Listening -- "Field Recording and Electronic Music -- with Detroit-based sound artist Rebecca Goldberg: Tuesday, February 18th (11 pm UTC 0 / 5 pm UTC-6). Register for this program at linktr.ee/worldlistening

Let’s put that deranged ketamine addict in one of his rockets, send him on a one way trip to Mars so he can colonize it. He wants to be emperor — let him be emperor of Mars

The Twilight Zone (Classic): It's A Good Life - A Very Bad Man YouTube video by The Twilight Zone

“A monster had arrived in the village. Just by using his mind, he took away the automobiles, the electricity, the machines, because they displeased him…” — Rod Serling youtu.be/QxTMbIxEj-E?...

These are excerpts from a very different dream speech from MLK, Jr. He says a lot here, July 4, 1965.

I’m gonna tell you fascists
You may be surprised
The people in this world
Are getting organized
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
— Woody Guthrie
youtube.com/watch?v=dWUa...