"I am looking and listening – all around me – enjoying the flora and fauna at the Rio Verde, a large perennial stream running through the Tonto National Forest in Arizona. I see the bright blue sky and from time to time hear the calls of small birds passing by, making me conscious of the wide open sonic space that envelops me. I am surrounded by willows, reeds and cattails, listening to their voices: the gentle weeping of the willows and the delicate rustles of the reeds and cattails in the breeze. I am turning my attention to the murmuring river water and occasionally hear the splash of a fish jumping. I am thoroughly present in this place – until I look down and the absence of my feet from the sandy river bank reminds me that I am actually not here – I am floating in this place, but present" from Feisst, S., Paine, G,. (2019) Sonic Intimacies: The Sensory Status of Intimate Encounters in 3D-Sound Art, in H. Schulze and S. Krogh-Groth (Ed.), Handbook of Sound Art, UK: Bloomsbury

In 2018/19 I published two articles in The Conversation seeking to broaden public engagement and impact of my research. The articles had nearly 72,000 reads as oil early May, 2020. In December 2018 I published Listening to nature: How sound can help us understand environmental change, and in mid 2019, in response to the US government issuing licenses for drone based delivery services I published Drone delivery and environmental sound.

The articles have been republishing by the Smithsonian Magazine, Slate, The Daily Beast, MIT Undark, the Daily Mail and generated broad international impact with a plethora of interview requests in Canada, Australia, Europe and the U.S..