Listening to the Borderlands

Two audio projects offer soundtracks of a region often talked about, but seldom heard.

Organ Pipe National Monument. Image courtesy of the artists / Dia Art Foundation

One small pleasure of living in Southern Arizona is how often people on the other end of the phone, in other places, comment on the loud background of birdsong. I had never been on the receiving end of this until the last day of February, when a friend in Sonora, Mexico, sen…