Events

Upcoming SA events including workshops, talks, and performances.

World Listening Day

REALAND IMAGINARY PLACES

July 18th 2025

Contribute to our annual collaborative sound art broadcast.

July 18th is World Listening Day (WLD). The day was established in 2010 by the World Listening Project (WLP) to celebrate the birthday of composer, writer, educator, and acoustic ecologist R. Murray Schafer.

On Friday, July 18 from 12 pm PDT to 12 am ET, we will broadcast a continuous stream of recordings that will developed into a responsive real-time piece.

Between July 7th and 14th, participants will receive instructions for listening and recording sounds. They are free to act upon any or all of the prompts of the most interest. After each activity, recordings are sent to Sound Archives to be mixed and broadcasted into the soundscape collage broadcast.

Collaborate

We have a new space in Providence at 50 Sims!

Stay tuned for news on new events and workshops!

World Listening Day 2021 was on July 18th, in honor of  R. Murray Schafer's birthday.

In celebration of World Listening Day, the Pacific Forum for Acoustic Ecology (Now Sound Archives) invited your participation for our inaugural live stream of soundscape collages. On Sunday, July 18 from 12 pm PDT to 12 am PDT, we broadcast a continuous stream of recordings that will developed into a responsive real-time piece. Between July 12th and 16th, participants received instructions for listening and recording sounds. They were free to act upon any of the prompts of the most interest you After each activity, recordings were sent to us to be mixed and broadcasted into the soundscape collage.

Have a sound project in mind?

We are always looking for ideas & collaborators!