is there an obvious human?

tell us what it is, or about, or whatever you can think of

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/21/819439633/welsh-archivist-documents-ordinary-people-in-extraordinary-times

http://religioussounds.osu.edu/call-sounds

https://www.wired.com/story/tell-us-your-pandemic-stories-for-our-oral-history/

https://www.thecut.com/2020/03/oral-history-social-distancing-birthday-party.html

Article/interviews about a birthday party that got cancelled.

I've been finding writing about what's happening a good creative outlet, and something a bit soothing. We're all having lots of thoughts, and I thought I'd write some down.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/arts/design/museums-coronavirus-pandemic-artifacts.html

Museums Scramble to Document the Pandemic, Even as It Unfolds

"With photographs, field interviews and mass surveys, institutions are trying to preserve information about everyday life during the crisis for future study."

Christian Sune Pedersen

"The museum is asking citizens of all ages to answer an online questionnaire to preserve important information about everyday life during the crisis for future study."

Kids from around the world making brief podcast segments together about what they're getting up to whilst stuck at home. It features many precious things, such as "I know a cat expert because, well, he is a cat", breakfast burritos and lists of things they can see in their backyards (including something that looks like "ninja throwing stars").

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/roman-mars-describes-things-as-they-are/

Roman Mars does an audio tour of his house, including a sound sample of a cutlery drawer being opened, a brief history of the printer and a lightbulb joke.

https://citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds/

Collection of recorded sounds from cities in lockdown.

hester@publicworksgroup.net / Grant Smith for previous editions

Annual listening camps and 24-hr broadcast - running remotely this year and collecting sounds of isolation as a free open call (family / group participation encouraged)

https://www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net/

UAL: Creative Research into Sound Art Practice

Invites you to listen to a monthly sound sample and send in a description, definition or audition of that sound. A collection of responses and the final reveal are published here: https://www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net/home/sound-of-the-month/ "Responses will help us understand how listening translates into words and what communal crossovers and shared understandings may or may not exist."

https://casafernandopessoa.pt/en/cfp

Booking and running poetry readings by phone, on weekdays

Collection of photos of music venues in lockdown + article by a music critic

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-pandemic-is-remaking-what-performance-can-be

More general to performance than sound alone, but an interesting read on performance in balconies, TikTok and online preservation

http://www.soundstudieslab.org/my-listening-protocol

Listening protocol (five steps to use listening as a research method)

https://aporee.org/maps/work/projects.php?project=corona

Interactive map, with user contributions of soundscapes in the pandemic (including a pot-banging protest in São Paulo and balcony recordings of public actions in Berlin)

Sam Alley / illustratedtapes@gmail.com

Different guest illustrators curate and illustrate mixtapes - might start to have some more responses to the creative state of lockdown / Collaborative project exploring and celebrating the relationship between music and visual art, one mixtape at a time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/arts/music/coronavirus-sirens-music.html

A music critic’s soundscape has been reshaped by the wail of ambulances. But she’s learning to hear in unexpected ways.

https://monoskop.org/images/0/09/Oliveros_Pauline_Sonic_Meditations_1974.pdf

Quite a long guide, but briefly it's about 1. actually making sounds 2. actively imagining sounds 3. listening to present sounds 4. remembering sounds. It has some brilliant prompts, like 'have you ever heard the sound of an iceberg melting?' , 'what constitutes your musical universe?', and other ways of playing around with names, words and sounds.

desartsonnants@gmail.com

Open call: "open your window, or go to your balcony, at a chosen time, day or night, listen to the surrounding landscape, record it, or describe it vocally, or in writing, graphically, or even mix genres, invent your own modes description, representation."