When I think of the sounds of protest, I hear chanting, ardent cries for freedom, anger, passion, longing, and hope. I think back to the recordings of protests led my Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that I heard and learned about in elementary school, to protests that my neighborhood and I organized in high school to combat hate crimes committed against the South Asian Muslim community, to the BLM protests that took place all around the world this year. The impact that the sounds have is more impactful than I imagined because when I think back to all the ones that I’ve participated in, the first thing I remember are the multitudes of distinct sounds, voices, music, and chanting that collide to become one harmonic piece.