Mike joined Eyvind Klang and Jonathan Miller with 15 students for an hour during the class on Ecomusicalities, discussing the work of Chris Watson & Jana Winderen.
Ecomusicalities
This course is an introduction to ecologically oriented music, sound art, and the study of ecomusicology in the context of the contemporary environmental crisis. Ecology is conceived broadly as relational understandings of human and non-human worlds, including considerations of the sublime beauty of Nature and the wisdom of traditional ecological knowledges (TEK), but also of knowledge produced by pollution, sacrifice zones, nuclear culture, and states of toxic sovereignty. What do commitments to environmental justice and climate movements entail for music and sound? How do philosophical notions of sentience and juridical notions of legal rights of natural entities like rivers and glaciers, affect the way we listen to and produce sound and music? What do reconsiderations of the relation of nature and culture prompted by discourses about the anthropocene change the foundational ideas of the production of music and sound?