Field recording workshop with Zaneta
Description
Join us for Listening to Land, a field recording workshop led by local sound-artist Zaneta (they/them) at Israel Wittman Sanctuary. This immersive outdoor experience invites participants to deepen their relationship with the natural world through attentive listening and the practice of recording ambient sound. Guided by Zaneta’s expertise in eco-acoustic art and mindful soundwalking, the group will explore how sound can reveal hidden dimensions of a landscape. No prior experience is necessary.
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About Zaneta
Zaneta (they.them) is a queer, multi-Filipinx interdisciplinary sound artist and spirit medium based in Ramapo Lenape territory. Their work addresses climate action from the internal, local, and sacred experience. Drawing upon the work of their lola sa tuhód (great-grandmother) as a hilot healer in Iloilo, Zaneta’s work reimagines our relationship with our local wilderness, as sacred and explores listening and sounding as forms of ecological care.
Weaving local field recordings, environmental studies, sound art, community story gathering, and channeling sound as an ancestral practice of stewardship, Zaneta’s work explores the role of sound in the somatic and sacred experience of ecological belonging.
Specifically how listening and sounding as inherently relational and reciprocal experiences, are essential social practices that not only raise awareness of our close connections to non-human kin, but cultivate a unique sense of empathy and interconnectedness that is foundational to stewardship, and ultimately plays a vital role in environmental futures.
Zaneta’s work has been presented in spaces such as the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles Natural History Museum, and at the Climate Imaginarium on Governor’s Island. Their past projects Sacred Seasons (2020) and Where Land Meets Sky: Geophonic Transmissions for the Body (2022), were awarded the Brooklyn Arts Council grants.
Zaneta currently serves as the environmental artist-in-residence at Marydell Faith and Life Center at Hook Mountain in Nyack, NY.
Their upcoming project, Invitations from the Land: the Zena Highwoods (2025), was created in partnership with the Woodstock Land Conservancy and in collaboration with the Zena Highwoods, and will be premiering on Wave Farm streaming December 21, 2025.
To learn more about their work at www.soundartmagic.com or follow them on Instagram: @soundartmagic
