South Africa has a tenuous yet dynamic relationship with what we might term geographies that sound. In fact, one can argue that geography is especially resonant in the locales where our politics are grounded, in the ideologies that we might ascribe to, and even in the very disciplinary bounds within which we are situated. Issue 16 of the New Music SA bulletin takes up the question of what it would mean to think a geography of sound/a sonic geography/a geographic sonicity. Within this question, we tackle multiple phrasings of this question, whether it be soundscapes and the critique thereof, the dialectics of space and place, aural responses to and within geopolitics and how contemporary music making is in itself a certain geographic formation.