01Book
Soundwalking: Through Time, Space, and Technologies
Walking and listening as ways to attend to shared environments, their histories and the responsibilities of moving through them.
05 / ResourcesRead / Listen / Think / Try
Reading &
listening
Books, essays and soundworks to spend time with. A growing collection around listening, water, ecology and the politics of sound.
01 / From the workshop
Tullis recommends
Five books recommended by Tullis Rennie. Practical invitations to listen, alongside critical approaches to recording and place.
02Book / Scores
A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros
A collection of listening prompts to try alone or with others. A practical way to carry collective listening into everyday life.
03Book
Environmental Sound Artists: In Their Own Words
Artists reflect on their own environmental sound practices, offering different ways to think about recording, composing and working with a place.
04Book
Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice
A critical companion to field recording: who records, what remains outside the microphone’s frame, and how technologies shape what we hear.
05Book
Situated Listening: Attending to the Unheard
Collaborative approaches to listening as a practice shaped by bodies, places and power. Includes scores that move between ideas and practical exercises.
02 / Water, embodiment & power
Maggie recommends
A proposed selection connecting watery bodies, shared environments and the politics of listening.
01Essay / Water
Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water
A starting point for thinking about bodies through the waters that connect them. For this archive, it opens questions of interdependence, difference and ecological responsibility.
02Essay / Research
Necro-Hydrology
On water’s entanglement with political violence, borders and extraction. Read alongside Duncan’s Hydrology of the Powerless, which combines testimony, field notes and hydrophonic soundings to investigate rivers as archives of violence.
03Essay / Forensics
Does Sound Deceive? The Forensic Art of Lawrence Abu Hamdan
An introduction to Abu Hamdan’s investigations of sound, testimony and state power. A way into the politics of who is heard, how listening becomes evidence, and what recordings can establish.
04Listen / River mapping
A Sound Map of the Danube
A river encountered through a sound installation. The artist’s page includes an underwater recording from Grein: a useful point of departure for listening across locations and scales.
05Exhibition / Coastal sound
Before It Was Water
An East Sussex coastal exhibition bringing together drawing, sculpture and sound. Every Second Breath, made with Isobel Anderson, combines underwater vocal experiments, breath and recordings from the Seven Sisters coast, Rock-a-Nore Beach and the studio in a four-channel installation.
06Installation / Ports
Waters’ Witness
Recordings made around and beneath the water in port cities become a sculptural sound environment. A way to connect underwater listening with industry, materials and the social life of the coast. The project has been exhibited at institutions including Fridericianum, Serralves and Mudam.
07Installation / Ocean
Moving Off the Land II
Commissioned by TBA21–Academy, this installation brings marine research, moving images, drawing and whale vocalisations into an oceanic encounter. Developed through dialogue with marine biologist David Gruber. An earlier related performance, Moving Off the Land, was presented at Tate Modern in 2018.
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