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Listening Beyond

Way back in 2014 when brainstorming titles for our fledgling zine, we wanted something that would draw a metaphorical line in the sand. The awkward tripartite title that we landed on was meant to diagram what we see as the constitutive relationality in sounding/listening: EAR (the complex entanglements of our subjective and subjected hearing apparatus), [...]

Discussion with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Kite: Thank you, again, so much for talking to me. I know you have a new book, and I would love to hear about that too. But could you introduce yourself for the recording? Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: Yeah, for sure. Aaniin, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson ndizhnikaaz. My name is Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, I am a Michi [...]

Well, Hell

Robbie Wing - Well, Hell Robbie Wing is a musician and sound artist born in Tulsa, OK and is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. His practice focuses on ecological sound art and listening practices. He holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Sustainability and masters degree in Urban Design from the University of Oklahoma. [...]

Discussion with Raven Chacon

Kite: When you are approaching composition, especially with pieces that involve land formations, do you feel that there is a loop where you understand composition is based on the land and the land is contributing to your composition, or is the composition a gift to the land? Do you see that your tools are in [...]

Spokane River Location 1 and 2

Eyvind Kang and Jessika Kenney - Spokane River Location 1 Eyvind Kang and Jessika Kenney - Spokane River Location 2 Credit: Jeremy Sherrer, engineer Jessika Kenney and Eyvind Kang are a duo interested in geomusicalities. They have released several records on Ideologic Organ including The Face of the Earth and Aestuarium. Their newest recording, Azure, [...]

Discussion with AM Kanngieser & Zoe Todd

Kite: Welcome, human,  non-human. Welcome. AM: My name is AM Kanngieser. I am on the unceded lands of the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people, the Kulin nations in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia. I am a white German geographer and sound artist. First-generation living here. I'm not going to start going into anything because I'm going to let [...]

Other Channels

Nadia Botello - Other Channels (Live Edit) Nadia Botello (b. 1986) is a sound artist, composer, and engineer based in San Antonio, TX. Her work has been exhibited and performed at MATA Festival, Nameless Sound, Clocktower, Fairmount Water Works, Flux Factory, Icebox Project Space, the Rail Park, the Arthur Ross Gallery, and James Turrell’s Skyspace [...]

Yanaguana Frictions

Nua tzirinvui nadu. Tanto yaqueaya tzembuiy nahumbi nadumbui. Tzimatzú quiteni nuaharannaduxte nadeni nuanage nabuiy nantzú huato ya betó teranduxnapetzi nuaniñeehé namuntzí nameinatiquindas najatzi tzimapató napuingui nadeege tzibuitó nahiadi tientzi maña narahuey najatzi najoquinantzú dijadavetdi didumbui natzeénahmi nanhie andogina nestihi napehde nadeni nuarabuiy nubuitziudi tiumbi nuarantzu nubui istindeé ytzoni nadu aranbuiy. Todo el mundo es una [...]

Listening to Nonhumans

Score for groups up to 10. Knowledge and ethics emerge from the hyperlocal contexts modeled by nonhumans and this training focuses on a handful of frameworks Indigenous to North America. In Lakota ontology and epistemology, that which is knowable is different from that which is unknowable, also known as wakhan or sacred. According to David [...]