Hear & Found is a creative social enterprise based in Thailand. We provide access to distinctive local music and sound around Thailand.
To expose these cultural treasures for media creators and adventurous listeners. We focus on increase public’s acceptance of the culturally diverse groups, particularly indigenous people. By building public awareness and creating more jobs opportunities in creative fields through showcasing their music and cultures as a medium of communication.
Last month, Hear & Found showcased the sounds and images of Thai ethnic groups from Ban Pa Pae, Ban Mae Po Kee, Ban Nong Tao, and Ban Saneh Phrong at our first international exhibition: the Listening Biennial at the Singapore Night Festival!
Our mission was to highlight Thailand's diversity and share the unique perspective of those who live closely with the forest. This was a significant step in allowing the voices of our communities and the sounds of nature to be heard globally.
Seeing visitors deeply engage—reading, listening, and appreciating the visuals—reaffirmed our dedication to helping these important stories and voices travel farther.
A big thank you to Alecianeo and the The Listening Biennial - Singapore team for their belief in us and indigenous people. Looking forward to see all of you again 🫶🏼
Hear & Found, a creative social enterprise based in Bangkok, Thailand.
We aim to increase public’s acceptance of the culturally diverse groups, particularly indigenous people. By building public awareness and creating more jobs opportunities in creative fields through showcasing their music and cultures as a medium of communication. This is a new initiative social enterprise in Thailand and we’re dealing with complex issues.
Our services are
Local online SFX and music library (www.hearandfound.com). This world music online library provides sound recordings and SFX in a local sense and music from recorded by indigenous and local musicians from Thailand. So, the content creators such as musicians, DJ, filmmaker, wedding videographers, podcasters and etc. to have more localize options for every creations.
20 - 50% of every transaction will be returned to the indigenous musicians or our fund to support indigenous youth education or support cultural activity purposes.
Music Production, we compose soundtracks, design soundscape or do the sound design for any commercial works.
Experience Design, we create and design cultural experiences and make it more creative and meaningful experiences such as music event, exhibition and tour programs. By doing this new generation will have more opportunities to gain more life experience and to immerse themselves with locals and indigenous people in Thailand.
In the past years, we connected people from around the world and the number of indigenous and folklore fans is getting higher and higher, as we gained from 20 to 2,500 audiences. ΩWe’ve found that perceptions have been changed through “understanding”. This is how we’re narrowing the gap of discrimination. And most importantly we generated about half of a million baht to the indigenous groups.
We’re looking for music partners and other great opportunities.
Contact us: [email protected]
