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Dan Godston

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husband & father, educator & writer

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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
U a rads hype jack lift here
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Whiskey Island via Mackinaw
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
stained washi mushrooms
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Fantastic poetry collection “Necessary” by @unionherald.bsky.social for sale at @woodlandpattern.bsky.social admin.shopify.com/store/woodla...
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
You’re invited to join us during our next Session on Listening — “Learning To Listen: A brief history of the Sound of Nairobi (SoN) project” — on Wednesday, July 1st (6:00 p.m. UTC+3, 10:00 a.m. UTC-5). Register via linktr.ee/worldlistening
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I look forward to reading several haiku by David Harrison Horton during my set tomorrow. Haiku Fest @ Harold Washington Library Center auditorium (10:00-11:30 a.m.) haikufest.com @unionherald.bsky.social
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Haiku Festival – Haiku Poetry Festival
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Wetland Project is an #EarthDay tradition. A 24 hour #slowradio #naturesounds Broadcast. Learn all about it on the April edition of Making Waves for WGXC Wave Farm with guests Brady Marks & Mark Timmings. Audio and transcript in next NAISA Sound Byte. open.substack.com/pub/naisasou...
Text on image reads NAISA Sound Byte 21 - The Wetland Project, an Earth Day Tradition.  The image background has the repeated letters earth spelled out in green and red font and continuously with no spaces over three lines.  As a result different words are formed.
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David Harrison Horton @unionherald.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Sound artist Sun Wei will discuss "The Moment and Place of Listening" for the World Listening Project this Wednesday (7 am New York time, 7 pm Beijing time). You can register to attend via zoom here: linktr.ee/worldlistening
A sound installation showing four bottles on a table in the foreground, wires leading to a device in the mid ground and speakers in the back. A composite of several of Sun Wei's performances and talks.
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
You’re invited to join us during “Moment and Place of Listening” with Sun Wei — Wednesday, March 25th at 7 p.m. (GMT+8) / 6 a.m. (GMT-5). Register for the program via linktr.ee/worldlistening Sound gains its own flow from time; space becomes the extension of vibration, the shadow of listening.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
A transcript of the conversation has been added on the NAISA substack - open.substack.com/pub/naisasou...
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NAISA Sound Byte 17 - Death as a natural transformation of energy and consciousness, not an end
A climate change conversation with Canadian Sound Artists Claude Schryer, Azul Carolina Duque, Kenneth Newby and Wendelin Bartley
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I.C.E. agents, you need to re-think your life choices.
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I love this issue of SAGINAW, edited by David Harrison Horton. Grateful that two of my poems have been included therein. @unionherald.bsky.social
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Pavement says, “No More Kings” youtu.be/KoJ2tOaqML0?si=ZQIAjzEeYjXaStQc
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No More Kings
YouTube video by Pavement - Topic
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Abolish ICE. Abolish the DHS.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
LAPD Won’t Do Immigration Enforcement — But Will Shoot You With Rubber Bullets for Protesting ICE theintercept.com/2025/06/10/l...
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LAPD Won’t Do Immigration Enforcement — But Will Shoot You With Rubber Bullets for Protesting ICE
LA’s sanctuary laws ban cops from helping ICE in most cases. But the LAPD was out in full force repressing protests against the raids.
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
It was amazing to walk around at Cahokia Mounds State Park, to think that Indigenous people founded and built a huge urban settlement with dozens of platform mounds here a millennium ago.
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Miles Davis statue and mural in Alton, IL. I’d driven downstate last Fri to attend my graduate commencement at McKendree U, wanted to stop in Miles’ hometown
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We invite you to join WLP during its next Session on Listening—Tuesday, April 22nd (10 pm UTC+0 / 5 pm UTC-5). What can be done to cut through the noise of today’s world? How do we find truth and understanding amid the chaos? Register for this program at linktr.ee/worldlistening
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“…I’m just not telling them what to do. You can interpret it however you want, but you know the basic idea of what it means, the basic idea of what all these signs and gestures mean, and you have to interpret it in every moment.” — Butch Morris bombmagazine.org/articles/199...
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BOMB Magazine | Butch Morris by David Henderson
With his ten-CD box set, Testament: A Conduction , composer/conductor Butch Morris gives voice to the collective imagination and re-envisions the way we…
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Perdita Phillips @perdy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Cities and Memory @citiesandmemory.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
📢 Would you like your field recordings to be heard at the iconic Barbican Centre in London? We’re hosting an exclusive call for our community to provide the recordings for a new commission as part of the Feel The Sound exhibition. Submit recordings by 30 April 📆 citiesandmemory.com/observatory-...
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Observatory Station: open call from Cities and Memory & Barbican
Observatory Station is an open call for field recordings for a brand new installation at the Barbican Centre in May 2025.
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Lynda Barry’s “Syllabus” is fantastic
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Imagine if laws were passed based on what can empower people and make communities safer, rather than what profiteers and revanchist nuts want
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Background Briefing with Ian Masters @ianmastersmedia.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
We’re joined by @stephenwalt.bsky.social discussing the unravelling of the US as the world's strongest economy is now an international outlier following an exodus of investors which has driven down the dollar as Brand America faces growing boycotts around the globe. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...
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How to Ruin a Country
Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, ex
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🍺🎙️ *Against the Law: Inside Trump's Attack on Law & Lawyers* Live panel discussion hosted at Hideout. This month, Show Up Chicago features Ed Yohnka of ACLU of IL and Professor Sheila Bedi, Community Justice & Civil Rights Clinic at Northwestern U law school. Monday, April 28th, 7 pm. Info/Sign-up:
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Show Up Chicago · Indivisible Chicago
The Blue Beginning chapter of Indivisible Chicago hosts this monthly community gathering/panel show/happy hour at Chicago's most highly evolved saloon. This month our guest speakers are **Ed Yohnka,**...
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
NAISA is pleased to launch its 2025 Call For Submissions on the theme “Sound Culture.” Deadline May 31, 2025. Categories: Sound Art/Electroacoustic, Sound+Image, Radio/Transmission Art, Interactive Installation naisa.ca/opportunitie...
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NAISA Call for Submissions | New Adventures in Sound ArtNAISA Call for Submissions – New Adventures in Sound Art
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
getting ready #handsoff
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
WLP seeks practitioners to submit proposals for the Official 2025 World Listening Day Theme — one that cuts through the noise of today’s world, which encourages deep listening, meaningful communication and empathy. Have an idea? Submit it at the link below! worldlisteningday.org/wld25/
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
You're invited to join WLP for its next Session on Listening -- "Field Recording and Electronic Music -- with Detroit-based sound artist Rebecca Goldberg: Tuesday, February 18th (11 pm UTC 0 / 5 pm UTC-6). Register for this program at linktr.ee/worldlistening
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Let’s put that deranged ketamine addict in one of his rockets, send him on a one way trip to Mars so he can colonize it. He wants to be emperor — let him be emperor of Mars
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“A monster had arrived in the village. Just by using his mind, he took away the automobiles, the electricity, the machines, because they displeased him…” — Rod Serling youtu.be/QxTMbIxEj-E?...
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The Twilight Zone (Classic): It's A Good Life - A Very Bad Man
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Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
These are excerpts from a very different dream speech from MLK, Jr. He says a lot here, July 4, 1965.
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I’m gonna tell you fascists You may be surprised The people in this world Are getting organized You’re bound to lose You fascists bound to lose — Woody Guthrie youtube.com/watch?v=dWUa...
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The Charlottesville Jazz Society & WTJU present the 2025 Mingus Awareness Project @ The Front Porch on Feb. 2nd — with The Adam Larrabee Trio & John D’earth Quintet
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Cities and Memory @citiesandmemory.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Join the call! We're looking for sound artists & musicians to take part in our biggest project of 2025, Sonic Heritage!🏛️ Remix and reimagine 200+ field recordings of amazing UNESCO World Heritage sites & explore the role sound plays in the world's most famous sights. citiesandmemory.com/heritage/
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Sonic Heritage - the sounds of the world's most famous sights
Sonic Heritage is a global tour to examine the role sound plays in the UNESCO-listed spaces deemed the world’s most culturally significant.
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
You're invited to join us during our next Session on Listening -- Exploring Sound Underwater with Joshua Sam Miller -- on Tuesday, January 28th (11 p.m. UTC+0 / 1 p.m. UTC-9. Register @ linktr.ee/worldlistening
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Ecotone Magazine @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Check out Malinda Miller’s new poem in Issue 36. “Above Tree Line” is free to read online! ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/above...
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Above Tree Line - Ecotone
Sparse horizons show me possibility. It’s then ideas sharpen—clarity doesn’t like a crowd. In a swarm of musts, my focus is porous as a cloud. But
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Cities and Memory @citiesandmemory.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
From museum installations and live performances to book chapters about the project and meeting up with more of our artist community, 2024 has been a year to celebrate for Cities and Memory! Here's our roundup of the year's action: citiesandmemory.com/2024/12/citi...
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
glints, penumbra
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Sonic Field @sonicfield.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Art Laboratory Berlin has a Podcast Channel called SONIC ECOLOGIES conceived by Tuçe Erel, with composition and production by Korhan Erel sonicfield.org/sonic-ecolog...
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Ernst Karel @sesamecircuits.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
47 Gates on a year-end list — thanks @pmargasak.bsky.social erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/47-gates @mphonic.bsky.social @erstwhile.bsky.social
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47 Gates, by Ernst Karel/Bhob Rainey
4 track album
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The Radiophonic Institute @theradiophonic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Submissions for Sound of the Year Awards 2024 are now open! From the sounds that encapsulate the past 12 months to the year’s most innovative technology, SOTYA celebrates sound in all its forms. Head to soundoftheyearawards.com to submit the sounds that best captured the spirit of 2024! #sotya2024
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Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Contributed papers are welcome in all branches of #acoustics! The technical program will consist of lecture and poster sessions. Sessions descriptions and submission details at acousticalsociety.or...
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
You’re invited to join WLP for its next Session on Listening: "Cairene Car Rides -- Listening to Cairo through Automobility," with Cairo-based sound artist Abla Abd El Naby (9 p.m. UTC+2 / 1 p.m. UTC-5 on December 16th). Visit linktr.ee/worldlistening to register for the program.
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
You're invited to join us during our next Session on Listening tomorrow, Nov. 29th (5 p.m. UTC+0) -- with Stuart Fowkes, sound artist and field recordist from Oxford, UK, founder of Cities and Memory. Register at linktr.ee/worldlistening
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Cities and Memory @citiesandmemory.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
What do the most famous sights in the world sound like? 🏛️🎧 Submit your recordings of any UNESCO World Heritage site or item of intangible heritage before the end of 2024 to be part of our next major global sound project, covering tourism, preservation & sonic culture! citiesandmemory.com/heritage/
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Sonic Heritage - the sounds of the world's most famous sights
Sonic Heritage is a global tour to examine the role sound plays in the UNESCO-listed spaces deemed the world’s most culturally significant.
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
You're invited to join us during "Nick Luscombe and James Greer from MSCTY_Studio," WLP's next Session on Listening (10 p.m. on Monday, October 21 (UTC-5) / 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 22 (UTC+9)). Register at linktr.ee/worldlistening
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
You are invited to join us during today's Session on Listening (September 26, UTC 10 pm) — “Listening Back / Listening Forward.” Register @ linktr.ee/worldlistening
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
You’re welcome to join our next Session on Listening today. Sound artist and educator Dr. Linda O’Keeffe leads this session — “The Seasons: Listening to a Changing World.” linktr.ee/worldlistening
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