Inspired by NPR’s StoryCorps oral history project, the Center for Experimental Humanities (EH) is creating a portable sound booth to interview a diverse cross section of the Bard College and neighboring Hudson Valley communities about the 2024 election. Interviews will focus on the ways media shapes, informs, and produces conditions for listening (and not listening) around politics and issues of democracy, building up to the election, the inauguration, and its aftermath. Pop-up events throughout the academic year will be organized in collaboration with campus partners such as the Center for Civic Engagement, the Stevenson Library as well as connected to several cross-listed EH courses. These “community sound portraits” will then be made available as a part of an online archive reflecting the current political moment. Design and fabrication by EH Media Corps member, Inju Keum. Funded by the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.