Soundscape Imaginaries: Exploring across Multispecies Boundaries

“Soundscape Imaginaries: Exploring across Multispecies Boundaries” investigates how creative responses to field recording generate ecological imagination and multispecies awareness. In partnership with Arizona School for the Arts, youth engage with Phoenix bat recordings that capture sounds beyond human perception, create their own field recordings of environments significant to them, and collaborate through science, music and creative writing to produce musical compositions and speculative narratives exploring urban coexistence futures. A workshop with biologist David Haskell on sensory awareness in creative writing and science communication extends public engagement. This study demonstrates how sonic practices advance environmental humanities while generating external funding proof-of-concept.