active since July 2025, this stereo microphone is streaming from the ‘end der welt’ glacier [eng. end of the world glacier] on the Ortles mountain in Stelvio National Park, Northern Italy.
a hydrophone swimming inside the the Amstel Canal just below Berlage Brug, transmitting since April 2022. Please go to hydro(F)iles to find out more
a stereo microphone inside the cavity space of a bascule bridge at Hortus Brug in Amsterdam city centre transmitting since April 2022. Please go to hydro(F)iles to find out more
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These live audio transmitters are possible and hosted through the Locus Stream Soundmap by the research initiative and group Locus Sonus based at the ESAAIX (Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Aix).
Please explore their open microphone soundmap for more globally hosted environmental live audio streams.
In the coming years of my practice-based PhD studies at the Departement of Geography, Centre for Geohumanities, RHUL, London, I aim to develop a critical framework and transdisciplinary creative practice that employs live audio streaming as a unique platform for alternative models of listening and responding to environments.
In ‘live audio streaming’, microphones are embedded in places semi-permanently; they transmit sound continuously from one location to many possible listeners over the internet. Through these ‘streamers’, it is possible to tune-in to the dawn chorus in Kolkata or a thunderous storm in the Dolomite Mountains in real-time. For some, live audio streaming is a symptom of the digital shift toward streaming everything. For others, it transforms the act of ‘listening to’ into ‘listening with’ environments, furthering an ethical reorientation to more-than-human life on a shared planet, and expanding geographic borders. Despite the ‘sonic turn’ in the environmental and geohumanities, this shift in listening is vastly underexplored, yet it holds significant and urgent potential for our capacities to attune to a planet in an era of climate crisis.
Please watch this space for new live audio streams and updates on the research project.
If you have any questions about my research, if you want to talk about live audio streaming in general or if you are interested in hosting a live audio stream feel free to contact me on liarennt@gmail.com.
In ‘live audio streaming’, microphones are embedded in places semi-permanently; they transmit sound continuously from one location to many possible listeners over the internet. Through these ‘streamers’, it is possible to tune-in to the dawn chorus in Kolkata or a thunderous storm in the Dolomite Mountains in real-time. For some, live audio streaming is a symptom of the digital shift toward streaming everything. For others, it transforms the act of ‘listening to’ into ‘listening with’ environments, furthering an ethical reorientation to more-than-human life on a shared planet, and expanding geographic borders. Despite the ‘sonic turn’ in the environmental and geohumanities, this shift in listening is vastly underexplored, yet it holds significant and urgent potential for our capacities to attune to a planet in an era of climate crisis.
Please watch this space for new live audio streams and updates on the research project.
If you have any questions about my research, if you want to talk about live audio streaming in general or if you are interested in hosting a live audio stream feel free to contact me on liarennt@gmail.com.