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Listening Challenge Day 1:

The Drone

Listen to music producer Moby guide you through the challenge. Listen to Eliane Radigue’s Trilogie de la Mort for at least ten full minutes. Don’t read or look at your phone””just focus on the sounds. Listen beyond your normal attention span.

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About the Listening Challenge

During this past challenge, we have brought you a week of experiential challenges, which explore these questions and provide daily activities to acquire new sound skills. Participants learned to listen with their whole body with advice and activities shaped by sound experts, artists, musicians, and other leaders in the field.

Each challenge is simple (most take around 15 minutes or less) and designed to bring you a specific benefit. You’ll activate unconscious perceptions, focus your attention, exercise your empathy muscles, and discover new connections.


More Challenges


Listening Challenge Day 2:

On Communication

Listen to author, yoga teacher, and musician MC Yogi guide you through today’s challenge.

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Listening Challenge Day 3:

Touching Sound

Listen to sound therapist and meditation teacher Sara Auster guide you through the challenge.

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Listening Challenge Day 4:

What Sounds Are You Missing?

Listen to Robert Hammond, co-founder of the High Line guide you through this challenge.

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Listening Challenge Day 5:

Putting Your Voice Into the World

Listen to Sophie Everhard, Director of Sofar Sounds NYC, guide you through this challenge.

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Listening Challenge Day 6:

Conventions of Sound

Listen to artist Amanda Giacomini guide you through this challenge.

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Listening Challenge Day 7: Deep Listening

Listen to Jane Hsu guide you through this challenge.

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