Problematizing Sound Methods Through Music Research-Creation: Oblique Curiosities

Abstract

In this article, we take up feminist new materialist thought in relation to our music research-creation practice to problematize the white, en/abled, cis-masculine, and Euro-Western methodological orientation often inherited with sound methods. We think with our music research-creation practice to activate a feminist new materialist politics of approach , unsettling sound studies’ inheritances that seek to separate , essentialize , naturalize/neutralize , capture , decontextualize , and re-present . We unsettle these inheritances with six propositions: imbricate , stratify , provoke , inject , contextualize , and more-than-represent. These propositions, and this article’s uptake of research-creation, hold implications for scholars interested in critically enacting sound studies research as well as qualitative and post qualitative research in general.