This workshop will focus on listening in multiple modes, with an ear toward audio work in nonfiction/ethnographic media. Participants will prepare for the workshop by engaging in a simple project involving listening both with and without technological apparatus, monitoring through headphones while both recording and not recording, and listening discerningly to the resulting recordings — an exercise loosely based on Pauline Oliveros’ 1979 text score, ‘Just Listening’. In the workshop we’ll discuss instruments for transducing sound into audio, listen critically to a variety of audio work, and engage in discussions around our experiences of listening and possibilities for sonic ethnography or other ways of engaging with reality-based audio.