Resources
(Always in Progress, 9/26 )
River Focused Sound Projects
Hear Water: Building Environmental Empathy Through Deep Listening, Bristol, England
LA River Arts, Los Angeles River, California
Listening to the Mississippi, Mississippi River, United States
River Echoes, waterways in and around Bristol, England
River Listening, rivers in Australia and worldwide
River Sounding, River Thames, England
Slowtime, River Foyle, Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Sound on Mystic, Mystic River, Connecticut
The Many Voices of the Sawkill: River Listening + Hydrophone Workshop, Sawkill River, New York
There Must Be Other Names for the River., Rio Grande River, Mexico-United States
The River, River Thames, London
The River Feeds Back, Schuylkill River and tributaries, Pennsylvania
Voice of the River, lakes and rivers in and around South River, Ontario, Canada
Waterway(s): Co-evolving with the Whetstone Brook - Kitadowoganisibosis, Vermont
Online Engagement and Activity Resources
Arizona State University Acoustic Ecology Lab
ECHOES, geolocated soundwalks, audiowalks, guided tours, and musical experiences
Participatory Listening Research
Robin Parmer, Listening to Places: Exercises Towards Environmental Composition.
Sound Map Activity (Buffalo Museum of Art)
Sound-mapping: Visualize and describe sounds (University of Plymouth)
Sonic Engagement Practices: Research Literature
Behrendt, F. (2018). Soundwalking. In M. Bull, The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies (pp. 249-257). London: Taylor & Francis.
Bruce. N. S. (2023). Extending soundwalking practice: Soundsitting as an inclusive and complementary method to soundwalking. Acoustics 5, 788–797. https://doi.org/10.3390/acoustics5030046
Bruce, N.S. (2025). Soundtalking: Extending Soundscape Practice Through Long-Term Participant-Led Sound Activities in the Dee Estuary. Sustainability 17, 7904. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17177904
Drever, J. L. (2020). Listening as methodological tool: Sounding soundwalking methods. In M. Bull & M. Cobussen (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies (pp. 713-735). London: Bloomsbury.
Paquette, D., & McCartney, A. (2012). Soundwalking and the bodily exploration of places. Canadian Journal of Communication 37, 135-145. Available: https://cjc.utppublishing.com/doi/pdf/10.22230/cjc.2012v37n1a2543
Post KM (2026) Relational sonic pedagogies for ocean engagement: Soundwalking, soundsitting, and soundweaving. Frontiers in Psychology 17:1780797. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1780797
Radicchi, A. (2017). A pocket guide to sound walking. In A. Besecke, J. Meier, R. Pätzold, S. Thomaier (Ed.), Perspectives on urban economics (pp. 70-73). Berlin: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin. Available: https://usiena-air.unisi.it/bitstream/11365/1233641/1/Radicchi_2017_A-Pocket-Guide.pdf
Smolicki, J. (Ed.). (2023). Soundwalking: Through, time, space, and technologies. New York: Routledge.
Westerkamp, H. (1974/2001). Soundwalking. Sound Heritage 3. Available: https://hildegardwesterkamp.ca/writings/writings-by/?post_id=13&title=soundwalking
Freshwater Ecoacoustics + Monitoring: Research Literature
Barclay, L. Gifford, T. Linke. (2020). Interdisciplinary approaches to freshwater ecoacoustics. Freshwater Science 39, 356-361. https://doi.org/10.1086/709130
Desjonquères, C., Gifford, T., & Linke, S. (2019). Passive acoustic monitoring as a potential tool to survey animal and ecosystem processes in freshwater environments. Freshwater Biology, 65(1), 7–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13356