There is no one correct way to listen to the river; there are multiple listenings, and multiple rivers.
There is no one correct way to listen to the river; there are multiple listenings, and multiple rivers. Listening to the Mississippi is an iterative project conceived in 2013 by a collective of artists and musicians, which in 2019 manifested as a sound composition and traveling listening station. The project asks listeners to orient themselves to the river through their sense of sound, rather than sight alone, and is rooted in the belief that powerful realities about the Mississippi River can be elicited by listening to it more carefully.