Listening Beyond the Audiogram: A Soundscape Journey from Practice to Place

When I returned to Labrador to build a life on the Land with my family, I didn’t expect to relearn listening. But over time — with each thaw and dusk-time call of the hermit thrush — my relationship to sound began to shift. I was no longer just identifying or interpreting it; I was experiencing sound as something embodied and relational, something that tethered me to place, presence, and peace.