Listening does not solely have an auditory function and can serve as a more comprehensive attunement with the world. Through hearing sonic ecologies, expanding practices of listening, and experiments with attunement to the polyphony of the earth, we can consider the fundamental problematics of human exceptionalism and the entrenched detachment from the natural world in today’s changing climate and collapse.

Listen below to excerpts of recorded conversations with Eduardo Kohn, Jeremy Narby and Salomé Voegelin around the topics of sound, vibration, and listening, conducted during our residency at La Becque in Spring 2022.