The Anthropocene is noisy, sonic and full of music. The emergence of listening as method has been brought to the forefront of the arts/science/creativity nexus. Less invasive, and rich in outcomes than other methods, this approach highlights that our need to listen to our planet and each other has never been more urgent. In the pre-COVID cacophony of the seemingly dying embers of late-stage capitalism, the world was flooded with divisive rhetoric pushing our world further into the isolating social silence of the market of one. In 2020, the proliferation of a Global pandemic seemed to change the music of the planet and its people. In the year that was, with one ear we could hear the calls for meaningful change in the Black Lives Matter Movement and Extinction rebellion, and with the other ear the endless dull roar of neo-feudal corporatism brought about the storming of a capital, the raucous argument for economy over humanity, and the continued cries as the environment was being sacrificed at the altar of the almighty dollar. And yet, for one short minute, the earth stood still. We could hear the seas again. Our ceasing of an endless need for consumption and travel heard the return of moments of meaningful stillness.