This assignment asks you to consider how the cultural disruptions of the COVID-19 global pandemic and its subsequent lockdowns have influenced the way we HEAR visual cultural activities. Many public cultural activities we used to take for granted, such as going to the movies and the theater, watching sporting events in bars and pubs, and going to the events themselves, have been severely curtailed in the past year. This has had a direct, if not necessarily clear, impact on how we experience the sonic contexts of these activities.