I discovered this long after the day that the world listened. World Listening Day 2020-08-18 in Portland, OR was one of many World Listening Project recordings.

The World Listening Day 2020-08-18 in Portland, OR talks about the experience of making the recording. It also has a link to the recording he did last year. If you have trouble listening to his recording, it is ambient noise, on his site you can listen here on the Internet Archives.

Or you can list to other places on the World Listening Project. It’s fascinating stuff. They describe it like this,

The Collective Field

There is something new afoot. The field itself is changing.

The creature world knows.  The creative one does too. 

So what does it mean now to listen? How do we express what we know?

Be alert.

Individually and in concert,

There is sanctity in it.

Amid new conditions, travel the field and explore

By call and response

The rhythm within. 

How does your song fit

Within the collective chorus?