We are pleased to announce that a book called Listening Glossary will be published by Silver Press in October 2026, to which we have had the honour of contributing a text based on our oceanic educational and research practice. This beautiful book, which maps very varied forms and approaches to listening and decolonial practice, has been prepared by the sound artist Hannah Kemp-Welch.

Listening Glossary explores the many meanings and practices of listening. Entries range from non-cochlear listening and machine listening to interspecies listening, tracing six decades of sonic thought and experimentation.

It gathers hundreds of terms for listening, contributed by people from diverse disciplines and constituencies, including activists, artists, D/deaf and hard of hearing people, ecologists, educators, musicians, philosophers, psychologists, researchers and sociologists. Their entries take multiple forms, including personal narratives, diagrams, performance scores, theories and poems. The terms invite listening through another’s ears or from specific perspectives, and together, offer a practical guide to listening as a relational practice.

You can now pre-order the book on the Silver Press website.