We believe intentional, communal listening is a way to reclaim autonomy in a visually dominated world that is increasingly fracturing our attention.
Audio can do so much more than entertain, amuse or at the worst infotain. As radio, podcasts, storytelling, and media in general become more commodified, there are fewer and fewer places to experience any alternatives.
We started making a radio show where we tried to talk as little as possible and make sound the focus, to give listeners a sonic space to have their own thoughts. We turned those sounds into a live, experiential show where the audience sits in the dark surrounded by loudspeakers.
Then, in 2021, we started producing 75-minute programs. On eleven consecutive dark, wintry, Thursday evenings, we live streamed spatialized audio straight to the headphones of people listening together, all around the world.
Attendees were mailed an eye mask and listening instructions for how to tune in to a program made by radio producers, musicians, and sound artists. After each show, we had a live discussion with the people who made the audio.
Shows ran from 75 to 85 minutes and are meant to be listened to in as distraction-free an environment as possible (hence the eye masks).
Through our listening series, we're trying to create a community-supported distribution channel to support not only our work, but the work of others who are tired of media that is designed solely to capture, control, and monetize your attention.