Ecology of listening and aesthetic reconnection to the environment.

What is it about?

This paper disserts on the practice of deep listening as a way to enhance an ecological relationship with the environment. It discusses the possibility of the re-tuning of our ears to the wider sound palette of the world. Considering George Monbiot’s concepts of ‘rewilding’ and ‘rewilding of the human life’, a parallel to our relationship with the soundscape is proposed — rewilding of the ear.

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Why is it important?

Rewilding of the ear becomes pertinent to music as organisation of sound; and music, being a practical experimentation of organisations of sound, stresses further exploration of a rewilding of the ear. This intertwining and permutation of processes steps towards the blurring of a conscious or unconscious distinction we might make between ‘ourselves and nature’, between music and soundscape.