Ear | Wave | Event (Issue 7)
<p>Over the course of thinking, interviewing, and writing this edition of <em>Ear Wave Event</em>, my own thinking about listening has transformed and deepened.</p> <p>This process began as a way to think through the differences between Indigenous listening practices and Deep Listening™. Previous discussions about listening in dreams and listening to dreams with family members and people, like artist Scott Benesiinaabandan, have pressed on the edges of the word <em>listening</em> itself, listening <em>beyond</em> the body, <em>through</em> the body, the body as a <em>tool</em> for listening to the Other World.</p> <p>In a following discussion, Anishinaabekwe poet, scholar, and musician Leanne Simpson told me, “They’re [elders are] listening to sounds as a way of relating, as a way of communicating with plants, with animals, with spirits. They’re listening to sounds in conversation with their ancestors and with those that are yet to be born.” What is inaudible? What is unlistenable? Who is trying to speak to us on a different frequency on the radio dial (Leroy Little Bear)? And how can we begin to listen without perpetuating a colonizing and ‘New Age’ harm towards other beings?…</p>
Editors: Suzanne Kite, Kite
Contributors: Suzanne Kite, Kite, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Robbie Wing, Raven Chacon, Eyvind Kang, Jessika Kenney, AM Kanngieser, Zoe Todd, Nadia Botello
Part of: Ear | Wave | Event