Wa Na Wari and The 3rd Thing Press commissioned writers and artists of all disciplines from all over the world, to contribute sound work responding to the theme of sound as space, place, memory and resistance. The space that sound creates can be a safe place, an exploratory vehicle to travel in together through space and time, a snorkel to breathe through. The complex scar tissue of helicopter blades chopping the air as childhood aural backdrop, the way we experience place through sound, how the past and present and future play a chord as we move through these paraspaces. I was invited to write about sound and place. What are the sounds of community and how are they preserved? How do we time travel in sound? How do we project future experience into sound?

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