Fill Me With Now

Fill Me With Now: A Reminder To Listen
Whether aware of it or not, you are always being exposed to a soundscape. Sensory psychology reminds us that the sounds we encounter can evoke emotional or physical responses, often without us being fully aware of their impact. This is where deep listening, a term coined by Pauline Oliveros, plays a crucial role.
My work invites you to shift from passive hearing into conscious listening—as a path to planetary healing, environmental awareness, and inner regulation.
Inspired by significant works in ethnography and eco sound-art— such as Bernie Krause’s The Great Animal Orchestra and Hildegard Westerkamp’s Into India— Fill Me With Now takes us through what I heard and learned during my lived experience of a specific moment in time (July-October 2024, Southern Thailand).
Using a Zoom recorder H1n, my iPhone microphone, and Ableton Live, I composed a sonic time capsule of my three-month immersion in the city of Surat Thani, Thailand. Drawing upon these field recordings, the piece unfolds in 3 movements: Morning (newness), Afternoon (fear) and Night (peace).
It is made up of personal soundmarks—what R. Murray Schafer defines as sounds that shape the identity of a place. These include, but are not limited to, birdsong, rain sounds, roadside traffic, temple teachings, moments of language exchange, and my own voice singing a chant that emerged from meditation. Together, they trace my journey to uncovering our true impermanent, interconnected and reciprocal nature of being.

By slowing down and listening inwardly, we begin to understand and soothe ourselves. From that place of awareness, we can listen outwardly—to the birds, the insects, the water—and begin to respond to what the Earth needs. This piece asks you to become a more active participant in your own presence, to remember that peace inside enables peace outside.

Listening gives us the opportunity to recognize our sensations in a world that has lost its sensitivity. To, in a system that counts on our disconnection, reconnect to our bodies, our surroundings, and one another.


I invite you to settle in, take 3 deep breaths, and to close your eyes while listening.