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Listening as Practice: Methodologies in Settler Societies

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This chapter situates the practice of listening with the sound works of Megan Cope. It argues for a quiet, non-invasive strategy of listening to place. These ideas engage with urgent issues around the Anthropocene as well as feminist and de-colonial methods of working.

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  1. 1.

    Kelly, L (2016) The Memory Code: Unlocking the Secrets of the Lives of the Ancients and the Power of the Human Mind. London: Atlantic Books, p. 13.

  2. 2.

    Bailey, P (1996) ‘Breaking the Sound Barrier: A Historian Listens to Noise’. Body & Society, 2 (2), 49–66.

  3. 3.

    Bijsterveld, K (2019) Sonic Skills: Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine and Engineering (1920s–present). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 2.

  4. 4.

    For information on Cat Hope’s practice as a composer, musician and academic, see http://www.cathope.com/.

  5. 5.

    Moynagh , M (2002) ‘This History’s Only Good for Anger: Gender and Cultural Memory in Beatrice Chancy’. Signs Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 28 (Autumn, 1), 97.

  6. 6.

    Gammage, B (2011) The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia. London: Allen & Unwin, p. 2.

  7. 7.

    To download the full report, see http://www.ipcc.ch/. Accessed 29 October 2018.

  8. 8.

    Schafer, RM (1994/1977) The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. Rochester: Destiny Books.

  9. 9.

    Voegelin , S (2010) Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 7.

  10. 10.

    Forsey, M (2010) ‘Ethnography as Participant Listening’. Ethnography, 11 (4), 558–572 (Sage).

  11. 11.

    Hope , C (2010) Doctoral Thesis, RMIT.

  12. 12.

    Ibid., p. 58.

  13. 13.

    Barlow, G (2008) Lost (Exhibition Catalogue), p. 6.

  14. 14.

    LaBelle, B (2006) Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art. London: Bloomsbury Press, p. 18.

  15. 15.

    Cage, J (2010) Silences, Lectures and Writing. Middleton: Wesleyan University Press, p. 109.

  16. 16.

    Fiumara , GC (1995) The Other Side of Language: A Philosophy of Listening. London: Routledge, p. 13.

  17. 17.

    The graphic score can be viewed here. http://www.cathope.com/moments-of-dissappearance-2013.html.

  18. 18.

    This short film provides an overview of the making of the sound for The Moment of Disappearance. https://vimeo.com/112673072.

  19. 19.

    For a full list of Fluxus performances, see this which is only available as an electronic document. http://www.deluxxe.com/beat/fluxusworkbook.pdf.

  20. 20.

    A filming of this work that was restaged can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT5lgaE-qZY.

  21. 21.

    LaBelle, B (2006) Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art. London: Bloomsbury Press, p. 86.

  22. 22.

    See Fontana. http://resoundings.org/Pages/Resoundings.html.

  23. 23.

    Gisbourne, M (2018) ‘Rohkunstbau XXIV “Mind the Gap”’ (Exhibition Catalogue).

  24. 24.

    Cope, M personal correspondence with author 12 August 2018.

  25. 25.

    Bottoms, T (2013) Conspiracy of Silence: Queensland’s Frontier Killing Times. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, p. 207.

  26. 26.

    Cope, M (2018) personal correspondence with the author 21 August, 2018.

  27. 27.

    Reynolds , H (2013) Forgotten War. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press.

  28. 28.

    Levander, C & Mignolo, W (2011) ‘The Global South’, 5 (1), Special Issue: The Global South and World Dis/Order (Spring), 1–11 (Published by: Indiana University Press).

  29. 29.

    Gough, J (2018) Fugitive History: The Art of Julie Gough. Crawley: University of Western Australia Publishing, p. 8.

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McMillan, K. (2019). Listening as Practice: Methodologies in Settler Societies. In: Contemporary Art and Unforgetting in Colonial Landscapes. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17290-9_8

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