TY  - JOUR
A1  - Collenberg, Louisa
T1  - Sonic becomings: rhythmic encounters in interspecies improvisation
T2  - Open Philosophy
N2  - David Rothenberg, a philosophy professor and Jazz musician, has been improvising with nonhuman animals for years, among his playing partners are birds and whales, known to be territorial animals. As Deleuze and Guattari propose that the origin of art is precisely the territorialising animal and more a function of nature than a specifically human cultural achievement, their concept of territory and rhythm offers a non-anthropocentric way of looking at these encounters. Rothenberg’s sonic experiments in resonance and interspecies interaction do not rely on language, thus I argue that the human and the nonhuman animals form a temporary joint territory via sonic rhythms and engage in a mutual becoming by forming a rhizome. His sound thinking practice thus also helps in decentralising further anthropocentric models of music and art.
KW  - sound thinking
KW  - sonic thinking
KW  - animal studies
KW  - rhizome
KW  - deterritorialisation
KW  - art
KW  - interspecies improvisation
KW  - interspecies music
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62931
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-629315
SN  - 2543-8875
N1  - This publication has been made possible through the Open Access Publication Fund of Goethe-University Frankfurt.
VL  - 4
IS  - 1
SP  - 224
EP  - 230
PB  - De Gruyter Poland
CY  - Warsaw
ER  -