Full Description
Makis Solomos explores the ecologies of music and sound, inspired by Felix Guattari, for whom environmental destruction caused by capitalism goes hand in hand with deteriorating ways of living and feeling, and for whom an ecosophical stance, combining various ecological registers, offers a glimpse of emancipation, a position strengthened today by intersectional approaches. Solomos explores environmental, mental and social ecologies through the lens of the history of music and current artivisms - especially in the fields of acoustic ecology, contemporary music and sound art. Several theoretical and analytical debates are put forward, including a theory of sound milieus and the biopolitics of sound; the relationships between music and the living world; soundscape compositions, field recording, ecomusicology, and the creation of sound biotopes; the use of sound and music to violent ends as well as considering the social and political functions of music and the autonomy of art, sonic ecofeminism, degrowth in music, and much more.
Contents
Introduction
1 Towards an ecology of sound
PART I: Music, nature, sounds, the living
2 Music and nature
3 Acoustic ecology and soundscape compositions
4 Philosophies of place and field recording
5 Ecology and environmental sonic artivisms
PART II: Mental ecology
6 Listening as a construction of the commons
7 Subjectivation, affect, and empowerment
8 Music, sound, and extreme violence
PART III: Social ecology
9 Music, society, politics
10 Social and ecosophical artivisms
By way of conclusion: Lockdown and music: the artist as producer
