Living Sounds

It all started ten years ago….

Living Sounds is an internet radio station and venue for live sound-based performance. The station’s 24/7 host is a recovering wetland in Plymouth, MA, represented by a mix of dozens of live-streaming microphones that have been recording for years in its woods and swamps. The station’s guests are invited artists and others whose live performances meld into and are contingent upon the current environmental conditions of the marsh, whether a dawn chorus, a sleepy afternoon, a thunderstorm, a bumble bee, or other chance dramas. 

Formerly a large industrial cranberry farm, the wetland site was once managed for productivity. Today, the Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary is a freshwater coastal wetland in a continual process of transformation that would continue for decades, even if not for the sea level rise that threatens to transform the site again within 50 years. Process-based restoration is only the removal of stressors: what follow are a change of conditions, new and renewed connections, migration, the flow of clean water.