Soundworks

The Myth of the Suffering Artist in the Mind of the City, or Hinterscapes: A Textured Circuit

By Matthew Horrigan

Moonsong

By Walker Williams

Play Moonsong Moonsong is a web-based electronic musical composition which is activated by the moon. Partially inspired by Dylan Robinson’s book Hungry Listening, Moonsong is an attempt to create a kind of electronic music that resists extractive listening and makes listeners recognize their own expectations about how music should be available to them. In contrast […]

Listening in Relation: Soundscapes from the Listening Room

By Julie Andreyev, Julian Evans, Hildegard Westerkamp, and Toni-Leah C. Yake

Rising Tide at Okeover Inlet

By Noé Rodríguez

A Synthetic Rainforest: Listening to the Bloedel Conservatory

By George Rahi

Editor’s Note

By Julie Andreyev

In the fall of 2025, I put out a call for Soundworks submissions on the theme of “Listening to the Land.” The call invited sound pieces and accompanying essays that explore listening and sound making in relation to the lands of so-called British Columbia. Submissions were welcome from various areas of study and cultural perspectives […]

Wherever I Am, Nevertheless You Are: An Autoethnographic Soundwork

By Roxanne Bella

Water Rhythms: Listening to the Impacts of Climate Change on the Glaciers of British Columbia

By Michele Koppes

Intertidal Room: A Soundwalk through Timescapes of Vancouver’s Coastline

By Jacek Smolicki

The Bird Park Sessions

By Julie Andreyev

Streamwalkers

By Jenni Schine

Gyitwaalkt: A Dialogue on Tsimshian War and Metal

By Max Jacob Ritts, Spencer Greening

What Sound Can Do: Listening with Memory

By Megan Robertson

The Coffee-Office: Urban Soundscapes for Creative Productivity

By Milena Droumeva

The Natural Complexities of Environmental Listening: One Soundwalk – Multiple Responses, by Hildegard Westerkamp

By Hildegard Westerkamp

The Listener: Remembering The Dane-zaa Soundscape Recordings of Howard Broomfield, by Robin and Jillian Ridington

By Robin and Jillian Ridington