be patient if stream is unable to load - sometimes the station runs out of signal which normally passes within 5-10 min. 

about:

teleconnections.xyz is a space for a series of environmental live audio streams and projects transmitting in real time from different geographies. It is part of a long-term research into environmental live listening methods by Lia Mazzari.

In climate science, the term ‘teleconnections’ describes large-scale patterns that link distant regions through shared atmospheric or oceanic dynamics. Here, the term becomes a listening proposition: a way of exploring how places might be entangled not only through planetary systems, but also through the act of streaming, transmitting sound signals, and listening itself. By connecting live sound from different geographies, teleconnections.xyz invites listeners to inhabit these sonic linkages as they unfold, revealing resonances, frictions, and unexpected correspondences across space and time.


real-time listening and live audio streams:

I use the term real-time listening to describe the act of listening to different environments via live audio transmissions ( often also referred to as live audio streams or open mic networks). Different from other ways of engaging with the sounds of our environments, such as field recording practices, live audio streams always listen remotely via a live broadcast.
In practice this means that a community or individual become a host, a caretaker of sorts, and install and maintain a microphone in their chosen location or situation. The microphones are connected to a small computer which allows them to digitally broadcast ( stream, transmit) the sounds of their environments to listeners on the internet in real-time ( with a few seconds of delay).
This sonic liveness is afforded by a connection to a server on the internet, connecting and situating listeners from across the globe into a digitally shared present.

Listening in real-time to a different place, therefore, often invokes a feeling of unpredictability and not-knowing what comes next, by collapsing spatial and temporal distance. Anything might happen on the other end of the audio stream, right now, and that makes us, as listeners, feel rooted in the unstable moment of the present. In this sense, real-time listening can be activating and grounding at the same time. It is an encounter with place and people, mediated through the infrastructures of real-time technologies.
Here, listening can become a form of ‘witnessing’ what might otherwise be inaudible, silenced or just overheard: hums of distance, roars of weather, rhythms of climate, the breath of machines and planetary impermanence mixed with buffering delays, signal interferences, technical glitches, and birdsong.
Therefore real-time listening is maybe not about fidelity per se, but about sharing and learning about other ways of coming-to-know place. It challenges traditional forms of pre-determined listening in a moment dominated by ubiquitous telepresence and real-time media.

research:
 This project is part of a practice-based postgraduate research degree at the Centre for GeoHumanities, Departement of Geography, at Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) undertaken by Lia Mazzari and funded by the Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership (until 2027).
During my research project, I aim to develop a critical framework and transdisciplinary creative practice that employs live audio streaming as a unique platform for alternative models of listening and responding to environments, via a variety of artistic and scholarly outputs which I aim to share here.