Sonic becomings: rhythmic encounters in interspecies improvisation
- 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.
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| Author: | Louisa Collenberg |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-629315 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0173 |
| ISSN: | 2543-8875 |
| Parent Title (English): | Open Philosophy |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter Poland |
| Place of publication: | Warsaw |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/10/05 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/10/05 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2023/09/06 |
| Tag: | animal studies; art; deterritorialisation; interspecies improvisation; interspecies music; rhizome; sonic thinking; sound thinking |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page Number: | 7 |
| First Page: | 224 |
| Last Page: | 230 |
| Note: | This publication has been made possible through the Open Access Publication Fund of Goethe-University Frankfurt. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 51261007X |
| Institutes: | Neuere Philologien / Neuere Philologien |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 10 Philosophie / 100 Philosophie und Psychologie |
| 7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 78 Musik / 780 Musik | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
