Publication Studio Hudson 2022
20 pp, including pages for notes

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Text Scores for Getting to Know the Invertebrates' is a collection of creative scores that invite re-consideration of individual relations with insects (and more broadly, invertebrates) through sensory prompts that guide interactions with them. These scores are inspired by composer Pauline Oliveros theories for extending our listening to the “edge of the new.” In the scores, special attention is paid to our commonalities with insects and invertebrates – the homes, soundscapes, multispecies communities, and climatic patterns we live in together. They prompt auralization (Oliveros’ term for listening or making sound in your mind) to consider how invertebrates sense sounds in our shared environments. These scores are exercises in moving beyond anxiety and avoidance, and towards intentional exchange, whether that exchange is simply a conscious consideration, or a physical action we take. They consider anthrophony as part of the soundscape, and humans as actively engaged sound-makers, rather than as intruders, controllers, or spectators – part of nature, not separate from it.