Edited by Anna Briers, Direct Bodily Empathy: Sensing Sound explores sound as a medium and the ways artists use deep listening, to audible currents and felt vibrations, sirens and noise, as a means of collective attunement, of building knowledge and of engaging critically with a planet in crisis. Catalysed by a two-part exhibition for the tenth anniversary of the Len Lye Centre, it takes a polyphonic approach, placing the work of Len Lye with major contemporary artists from Aotearoa and abroad and pairing essays and expanded texts by scholars with sound installations, resonant objects, graphic scores, visual music, kinetic sculptures, field recordings, experimental films, musical composition and choreography. It asks whether architecture can be a musical score, whether the body can be an instrument, whether colour can be heard, what a healthy ecosystem sounds like and what sirens and warnings are needed to survive the future. The book gives access to an audio recording of Mia Salsjö's A Score for the Len Lye Centre, performed by musicians of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. The cover is black, with lettering spiralling around beams of light and a figure standing between two tuning forks.