Sounds of the Winter Solstice (virtual event)

Join us for a special solstice broadcast of The Sounds of the Winter Solstice, a soundscape and vocal performance by artist Zaneta. This piece is an excerpt of a larger work Invitations from the Land, which was recorded at WLC's Israel Wittman Sanctuary in the Zena Highwoods. Drawing from field recordings captured at powerful celestial moments like solstices and equinoxes, Zaneta creates immersive sonic worlds where the forest itself becomes both stage and collaborator. Layered within these soundscapes are her sung responses, an intimate practice rooted in her Filipinx heritage and the tradition of singing to the forest passed down by her grandmother.

This segment was recorded on the winter solstice of 2024 and will be shared with listeners on the winter solstice of 2025 through Wave Farm Radio. Layered within these soundscapes are her sung responses, an intimate practice rooted in her Filipinx heritage and the tradition of singing to the forest passed down by her grandmother. The hour-long piece features interviews from residents of the Zena Highwoods, the WLC Land Stewards who maintain Israel Wittman Sanctuary, and WLC's Program Curator, Miranda Javid.

This broadcast invites listeners to slow down, attune to seasonal rhythms, and experience the living dialogue between artist and landscape.

Broadcast details

• Date: Sunday December 21, 2025
• Time: 10:00 - 11 AM EST

Free and open to all listeners. Sign up via this eventbrite to receive an email as the stream starts on December 21.

About Zaneta

Zaneta (they.them) is a queer, multi-Filipinx interdisciplinary sound artist and spirit medium based in Ramapo Lenape territory. Their work addresses climate action from the internal, local, and sacred experience. Drawing upon the work of their lola sa tuhód (great-grandmother) as a hilot healer in Iloilo, Zaneta’s work reimagines our relationship with our local wilderness, as sacred and explores listening and sounding as forms of ecological care.

Weaving local field recordings, environmental studies, sound art, community story gathering, and channeling sound as an ancestral practice of stewardship, Zaneta’s work explores the role of sound in the somatic and sacred experience of ecological belonging.

Specifically how listening and sounding as inherently relational and reciprocal experiences, are essential social practices that not only raise awareness of our close connections to non-human kin, but cultivate a unique sense of empathy and interconnectedness that is foundational to stewardship, and ultimately plays a vital role in environmental futures.

Zaneta’s work has been presented in spaces such as the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles Natural History Museum, and at the Climate Imaginarium on Governor’s Island. Their past projects Sacred Seasons (2020) and Where Land Meets Sky: Geophonic Transmissions for the Body (2022), were awarded the Brooklyn Arts Council grants.

Zaneta currently serves as the environmental artist-in-residence at Marydell Faith and Life Center at Hook Mountain in Nyack, NY.

Their upcoming project, Invitations from the Land: the Zena Highwoods (2025), was created in partnership with the Woodstock Land Conservancy and in collaboration with the Zena Highwoods, and will be premiering on Wave Farm streaming December 21, 2025.

To learn more about their work at www.soundartmagic.com or follow them on Instagram: @soundartmagic