Keywords to describe my practice.
Deep Listening (Soundscape, Improvisation, Composition, Song) – Deep listening (and, in response, composing) to me is how we are able to kind of access a deeper sense of symbiosis with the world and life energies around us. (Deep listening) as a form of composition is how music becomes a spiritual part of our lives, existing among our physical and metaphysical environment as a benevolent force that may enter our spaces. Soundscape composition, improvisation, or songwriting & music composition are forms of manifestation of deep listening. Listening can open doors to empathy for each other, and for nature and for life itself – and invite us to pay deeper attention to things which we may not have previously.
Climate Change (Field Recording, Nature) – For example, listening can open doors to thinking about the climate emergency. Listening to the natural world allows us to cultivate a sense of empathy, and to see it as a relative rather than a resource. The soundscapes of nature which are constantly occurring may shift and change with the changing of habitats, migration patterns and so forth. Climate justice is a portal into a better world, one where everyone has what they need to live in comfort, dignity and safety. Climate justice is expansive, and encompasses all of our collective struggles.
Queerness (+ Feminism) – Queerness is expansive to me. Queerness is imagning beyond capatlist, colonalist and cis-het ideals. Queerness is vast, is the possibilty of someting more expansive and joyful than what cis-het society has to offer. Being LGBTQIA+ is only a gateway to being queer – only because having these identites forces us to find alternative routes, to imagine something so much better: something more joyful and expansive. It is because these communites are so full of love and possibility that we show the world another way of being. Queerness is land-back, is anti-capatilist, is free Palestine. Anyone who has this vision of a better world is queer. Anyone who chooses joy, freedom and expansiveness over oppression and tyranny is queer.