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Sound Matters provides a truly unique communications service for businesses and organisations who are trying to help make the world a better place. We create immersive sound experiences which are designed to help you, your clients and teams connect more effectively to the world and the processes shaping it. Through this connection, you will be better placed to address those issues that impact you, your team, your business and the planet as a whole.

Listening is both an art and a practice - it’s so much more than something we do passively with our ears! This is key to...
04/02/2026

Listening is both an art and a practice - it’s so much more than something we do passively with our ears! This is key to understanding why learning to listen could be one the most important things we can do in order to create a flourishing future.

This book offers new way of engaging with the world which could help us navigate these challenging times more effectively - unlike its author, its hopeful 🤩

As author, sound artist, and researcher JamieHouse states:

“Soundscapes of Life is an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to listen more deeply to the living world . With clarity, passion, and profound ecological insight, Edwards weaves science, art, indigenous knowledge, and philosophy into a compelling exploration of how sound shapes our understanding of place and presence. This work not only illuminates the hidden frequencies of the more than human that surround us but also reminds us of our responsibility to protect and create kinship with them. Essential reading for field recordists, ecologists, artists, and anyone who yearns to tune back into the Earth’s subtle voices.”

It would be great to share our thoughts on listening and soundscaping so please get in touch if you have an event where you feel we might be able to contribute something 🙏

The book is available from

Thank you for the poster designs.

The music is from our album ‘Blitouni’ by

01/02/2026

To build deeper relationships with the world around us we need to employ different sense modalities.

We live in a largely visual world; indeed, the world we have created - and most of the crises we face - is a result of imaginations that have been dominated by one sense.

Imagine the world we could create if we started to relate to it with all our senses!

Since the conference we are more inspired than ever to start mainstreaming soundscaping into the heart of garden design.
Again, thank you to for getting us started on this journey.

24/01/2026

Of course, I’m not suggesting that we should elevate one sense above another; however, I think garden design is based more around visual aesthetics than aural and, as such, it could be interesting to explore how soundscaping could be used as a ‘new’ garden design parameter.

At the conference I suggested that gardening could have more positive environmental impacts if we designed them with an emphasis on what we wanted them to sound like rather than what we wanted them to look like. A garden can be designed to look beautiful but have very little biodiversity value. I suppose the same might be true of a garden designed to sound nice but I don’t think so. I believe to make a garden sound nice we’d be working to attract wildlife into our gardens as the number one priority.

We’re currently creating a series of workshops for garden designers interested in using sound, soundscaping, and listening in their work.

Thank you to for your interest and support in this initiative.

We’re developing a series of Integral Listening (IL) workshops which aim to bring the art and practice of listening into...
24/01/2026

We’re developing a series of Integral Listening (IL) workshops which aim to bring the art and practice of listening into the heart of design practice. We’re particularly interested in supporting garden designers who are interested in exploring sound, as a garden design parameter, in rewilding initiatives.

We recently spoke about our work at the conference and our workshops represent the next phase in our practice.

We’ll be taking the theory of Integral Listening, which is discussed in ‘Soundscapes of Life’, and turning it into a practical tool in garden design.

We’re grateful to for all of their support in this new initiative.

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20/01/2026

🦫 We’re overwhelmed with hope! It’s not often we say that…

We’ve just witnessed the transformation that an environment undergoes when beavers return to a landscape. We’ve seen how beavers work with the landscape in ways that lead to flood prevention and habitat creation whilst building adaptive capacity to climate change.

We’re going to be recording how the soundscape changes as a result of beaver activity. It’s not a scientific monitoring project; rather it’s a public engagement activity - getting people excited about rewilding and the amazing benefits it creates for individual and planetary wellbeing!

17/01/2026

After a wonderful few days at the Wilding Gardens (sorry, I left out the crucial word ‘gardens’ in my video) conference in Manchester, we’re at Broughton Sanctuary continuing to develop our work on the use of soundscaping and Integral Listening to engage people with the power of rewilding everything from tiny plots to large tracts of land in order to bring nature back into our lives for both personal and planetary wellbeing.

Thank you for inviting us to present our thoughts and to everyone that has engaged with our work.

Our aim is to mainstream soundscaping into all aspects of the rewilding process and we look forward to fruitful collaborations with those who might be interested in exploring sound as a new garden design parameter which will directly support the natural world.

12/01/2026

This week we’re at in Wales exploring soundscaping and Integral Listening (IL) as an arts-based practice for engaging with environmental crises.

Sadly, as with so many areas in the UK, the soundscape is dominated by human generated sound - the anthropophony. Part of our work here will be thinking about ways to create more ‘balanced’ soundscapes where the sounds of the natural world - the biophony - are brought up in the mix.

I know we keep saying it…but, we truly believe that listening holds the key to finding solutions to many of the crises w...
08/01/2026

I know we keep saying it…but, we truly believe that listening holds the key to finding solutions to many of the crises we face. Not just any kind of listening but a special type of listening which we describe in our book.

We’re trying to create a ‘listening revolution’ and we’d love you to join us on this mission! Read our book, join us on one of our workshops/retreats and begin the journey towards greater personal and planetary wellbeing.

A lot of the issues we face have, as their fundamental cause, an inability to listen or - and this is important - an ability to only listen to dominant voices!



Thanks to for the music and for the art. And to for publishing it!

02/01/2026

Sometimes…there is nothing to listen to! There are so many reasons for this reality - some positive, some negative.

Go outside and listen - what do you hear/not hear?

Every sound - be it there or not, tells a story.

Are you listening?

20/12/2025

Sounds over 85 db can be harmful. Of course, the decibel meter l’m using is an app so the readings aren’t exact but, it’s noisy! You have to shout to be heard at this ice skating rink - and the quality of the audio is dreadful making the whole sonic experience pretty bloody awful!

We wear sunglasses to protect our eyes from harmful rays but rarely do we think about protecting our ears. Of course, one exposure to this level of noise won’t have detrimental impacts but, over time, repeated exposure to noise at this level can damage hearing. Be ear aware!

18/12/2025



Some outtakes from our upcoming documentary about our work in all linked to our new and

We missed by a few weeks but still wanted to acknowledge this important day. Growing 🫒 is important for creating in this part of Spain.

Thank you for painting ‘The Listener’ which graces the cover of: ‘Soundscapes of Life’.Thank you and for your endors...
13/12/2025

Thank you for painting ‘The Listener’ which graces the cover of: ‘Soundscapes of Life’.

Thank you and for your endorsements.

Thank you for the collaboration which led to the founding of and the writing of this book - and the music that accompanies this post

We cannot overestimate the importance of listening in these challenging times. This book is a clarion call to everyone to start exploring the art and practice of Integral Listening (IL) to create a more regenerative future!

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