Listening Parties are a collective connection to one of our most intimate (and overlooked) senses. Each gathering is a rare opportunity to sit in good company and soak up sound + story.

Photo credit @doingbigthingslittle

Photo credit @doingbigthingslittle

ISOLATION

Ell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Here I Am and Here Be Danger
Annie McEwan
Listening Post
Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen
Lone Trumpeter
Aaron Ximm for One Minute Vacations
Eat Cake
Jonathan Mitchell
Excerpt: Mei Mei
Dmae Roberts
Subtext: Communicating with the Horses
Jay Allison
My So-Called Lungs
Laura Rothenberg for Radio Diaries
From a Distance
Dorothea Trufelman and Emma Lanier
These Words, Forever
Nate DiMeo for The Memory Palace
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PERSPECTIVE

Splendor All Around, Oakland, CA

Behaves So Strangely (excerpt)
Jad Abumrad for Radiolab
Anna
Charles Spearin for the Happiness Project
The Grandmother and the Vine of the Dead
Lauren Sterling for Here Be Monsters
Quiet Space 28
Jason Sweeney for Stereopublic
Teenage Diary: Jeff (excerpt)
Joe Richman for Radio Diaries
At a Loss for Words
Mira Burt-Wintonick for Wiretap
Portrait of the Artist as an Answering Machine
The Kitchen Sisters for Lost and Found Sound
Harriet Quimby
Nate DiMeo for the Memory Palace

OVerlooked

Holly Flora, Los Angeles, CA

The Sunshine Hotel (excerpt)
Dave Isay and Stacy Abramson for Sound Portraits
Eye Contact
Jonathan Mitchell
One Minute Vacation: Indian sleeper car at sunset
Aaron Ximm
One Minute Vacation: Hand-cranked record player in Shanghai
Aaron Ximm
One Minute Vacation: Rainfall in Muir Woods
Aaron Ximm
Cuts and Bruises
Steve Urquhart
The Human Voice
Studs Terkel for StoryCorps
Nancy Grows Up
Tony Schwartz
Walter Backerman, Seltzer Man
Joe Richman for Radio Diaries
LBJ and the Helium Astronaut
Larry Massett for Lost and Found Sound
Kid Logic (excerpt)
Jack Hitt for This American Life
Everything and Nothing
Mark Philips for Radiolab

ENCORE

Oakland, CA

Sonic ID: Impersonations
Jay Allison for WCAI
Sonic ID: Hanging the wash
Jay Allison for WCAI
Sonic ID: Stripper pole
Jay Allison for WCAI
What a Little Moonlight
Jennie C. Jones
Kings Candy
The Kitchen Sisters
Rabbit Hunt
Matthew Ozug
Heard, Once
Nate DiMeo
Beep Beep
David Weinberg for Random Tape
Every Heart Has a Limited Amount of Beats
Martin Johnson and Ann Heppermann for Serendipity