These sound pieces feature music in conjunction with witness testimony, protest footage, and information about the SRG. The public is encouraged to listen to the audio clips and contact those in power, demanding the SRG be fully dismantled.

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Listening with Care

This soundwalk concerns numerous anti-Black, ableist, racist, misogynistic, and transphobic instances of police brutality. These examples of violence by their very nature appear at protests for racial equity, a free Palestine, police and prison abolition, fair housing, and universal access to fundamental human resources. These examples are musically recounted to shine a spotlight on the systematic violence that is somehow always both in plain sight and entirely shadowed out. For the circles of police who would wish educational storytelling efforts such as this soundwalk would not exist, their concealing of pinned-down protestor after protestor on dimly lit streets is perhaps best described with sound instead of film. With the insurmountability of that violence leaving them void of accountability, storytelling efforts to recount their true form and function pose a dire threat to the institution of amerikan policing. Their wish that systemic police brutality be mistaken as isolated incident after isolated incident, with its impact fading from memory as time passes, is exactly why engaging with this soundwalk is so urgent.

These imperfect artistic representations are guided by a radical commitment to winning the world we need– one that ceases to reproduce these violences. Another way we might listen with care is by working to eradicate the conditions which bring this violence into the world. Each landing page closes with auto-populating emails, tweets, and more, that directly address people who have long had the power to bring an end to this specific violence. Please join the chorus of voices who have given the necessary time and attention to this work, by utilizing structures such as this soundwalk to further eradicate the conditions of police violence that persistently envelop.

This statement is modeled with admiration after the preface of Eric Stanley’s “Atmospheres of Violence” (2021)