Sounding Kin: A Queer-Feminist Thinking of Free Improvisation
dc.contributor.advisor | Tomlinson, Vanessa | |
dc.contributor.author | Reardon-Smith, Hannah | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-01T23:10:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-12-01T23:10:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-11-16 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.25904/1912/4413 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/410449 | |
dc.description.abstract | This artistic research is an emergent, situated thinking of freely improvised musicking through the lens of queer and feminist theory. It pursues a post-qualitative inquiry founded in collaboratively thinking-with a series of companions: myself as an artist and as a queer feminist, my musicking and thinking communities, six conversation companions, and six companion texts. Along with these companion-thinkers, I explore three entangled points of inquiry: “unmastering” the habits of institutional musicking and the persistent presence of the master-Man; interrogating the notion of “freedom” in free improvisation, its history and its situated meaning for a queer-feminist white settler musicker on stolen, unceded Aboriginal land; and the possibilities of collaboration founded in notions of contamination, interdependence, changing and being changed. Thinking-with companions and with musicking is explored as a curious and iterative practice, with voices and ideas arising recurrently throughout the text. Free improvisation is a generative site for soundmaking as kinmaking—musickin: intimacy formed via contact and exchange. The sweaty concept of “free”, however, becomes a prompt to reckon with complicity. By staying with this trouble, the queer-feminist free improviser practices response-able musicking in contaminated human and more-than-human collaborations. | en_US |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Griffith University | |
dc.publisher.place | Brisbane | |
dc.subject.keywords | unmastering | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | freedom | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | history | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | queer-feminist | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | musicking | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | feminist theory | en_US |
dc.title | Sounding Kin: A Queer-Feminist Thinking of Free Improvisation | en_US |
dc.type | Griffith thesis | en_US |
gro.faculty | Arts, Education and Law | en_US |
gro.rights.copyright | The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise. | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
dc.contributor.otheradvisor | Kallio, Alexis A | |
gro.identifier.gurtID | 000000024611 | en_US |
gro.thesis.degreelevel | Thesis (PhD Doctorate) | en_US |
gro.thesis.degreeprogram | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | en_US |
gro.department | Queensland Conservatorium | en_US |
gro.griffith.author | Reardon-Smith, Hannah |
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