Members: Dale Lloyd, Marcos Fernandes, Steve Barsotti, Steve Peters, Doug Haire, Alex Keller, Robert Millis, Christopher DeLaurenti, Mark Griswold, Toby Paddock, Perri Lynch, Jonathan Way, Susie Kozawa, Heather Perkins, Pete Comley, Katie Gately

A group of field recording artists who come together to explore sound environments and create interesting juxtapositions of the novel and the familiar in field recordings.

The Seattle Phonographers Union convene to explore the ways in which we recognize, differentiate, map and navigate our sonic environment. Our intent is to move beyond habitual experience of sound and uncover what is foreign in the familiar and familiar about the foreign; to explore what we hear and relearn what we know. Some sounds will be familiar, others less so. Both novel and familiar sounds will be juxtaposed in ways unique to each event. Our intent is to investigate and enrich both our intuitive and analytical relationship with sound. The goal is not to excite, confuse or entertain per se, but to attend to the world, which is much more detailed and diverse than any one person's perception of it.