Musical Multispecies Zooethnographies: Methodological Channels of Interspecific Music
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This paper proposes musical multispecies zooethnography as a new methodology that aims to point out and question, both musically and theoretically, the problematic separations and dichotomies between humans/nature, culture/ nature, and music/sound. Since late 19th Century, the term music has embraced a wide spectrum of experimental practices in the West; however, in various institutional and academic disciplinary perspectives (also Western), this category is still restricted to human sound expressions. On the other hand, the exclusionary uses of the concepts of humans/nature and culture/nature limit, perhaps unnecessarily, the disciplinary fields, so much so that many of their foundational conceptual bases and institutional structures were built on the distinction between the study of nature and culture. From the theoretical discussion and artistic practice around the sounds of other animal species, the new methodology proposed, musical multispecies zooethnography, seeks to join the efforts to try and erode some of these disciplinary borders – in this case, the limitation to the human nature existing in many musical conceptions and practices. This methodology also aims to serve as a guide on how to approach the design and composition of interspecific music, not only from the field of sound, but also from ethological and ethnographic reflections. It also presents general musical structural guides, and it may optionally include scores/guides for interspecific improvisation sessions. Thus, I propose this methodology as a mixed approach that moves freely between the dynamics of ethology, ethnography and artistic research-creation.
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