In this moment of tremendous change and uncertainty, the Dallas Museum of Art in collaboration with experience and sound designer Yuri Suzuki wanted to create an open platform for people to express themselves and to capture our shared experience of the fleeting moments around us during this period. Through our collective observations and the simple act of listening, we hope to provide participants with a moment of global shared empathy and a means of connection. While physical isolation is often necessary in this current moment, connection is more important than ever.

We invite you to submit sounds—from cooking dinner at home, to the ambulance siren passing by, to online connections with loved ones—and build a record of this global moment with us. The sounds will be mapped onto a virtual rendering of the globe based on the location in which they were captured, culminating in Sound of the Earth: The Pandemic Chapter—a dynamic audio experience of the lives of people around the globe.