Listening Guide to Incarceration is a staged documentary performance that examines how sound shapes life inside prison. Moving from 1930s prison work songs to contemporary recordings from the DC Jail, the piece traces a shift from music as expression to sound as environment. Through reenactment, lecture, live music, field recordings, and participatory listening exercises, the performers introduce the concept of carceral acoustemology—learning to know, trust, and navigate the world through sound within enclosure.