This paper examines how soundwalking, field recording, and participant narratives supported knowledge-making during the Covid-19 pandemic in practice. It draws on a multi-method process developed through the Sounding Covid-19 Repository (two years of pandemic soundscape compositions) and the follow-on Covid-19 Sound Stories project, based on recorded reflections and interviews. Using reflexive thematic analysis alongside researcher introspection, the paper traces how sonic practice moves from first-person reflection to shared, communicable insights, invoking transcendental idealism heuristically to describe how inner experience and external conditions become comparable through recording and re-listening. It identifies perceptual, temporal, and interpretive forms of knowledge generated in crisis. keywords:
Georgios Varoutsos (Tue,) studied this question.