32 SOUNDS: Documentary & Soundbath

32 SOUNDS (2022, dir. by Sam Green, 97 mins). An immersive, amusing, and moving journey through 32 soundscapes by filmmaker Sam Green (The Weather Underground, A Thousand Thoughts) in collaboration with electronic musician JD Samson (Le Tigre). Green samples sounds inside the womb, the mating call of a now-extinct bird, the audio effects created by a Hollywood Foley artist, the hush of snow falling in Japan, and John Cage’s famed piece, “4:33.” Experimental musician Annea Lockwood (her Piano Burning performance captured the sounds of a piano on fire) suggests — as she records “wild” sounds from a marsh — that we should be listening with the environment, rather than to it. 

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"A freewheeling exploration of how sound shapes and moves us, the film is bursting with humor, emotion and curiosity, “32 Sounds” is a uniquely mind-expanding plunge into a dimension of the human experience so many of us…