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May 7, 2026Journal of sonic studies0 citationsOpen Access

A Sonic Counter-Cartography of Eastern White Pines

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DCDanny ClarkeDCDanny Clarke

Key Points

  • This project investigates the relationship between sound, space, and Indigenous ecological knowledge concerning Eastern White Pines.
  • Utilized field recording techniques to capture soundscapes of Eastern White Pines in the Northeastern U.S.
  • Employed biosonification to convert biological data into sound.
  • Created generative soundscape compositions that reflect Indigenous perspectives on the environment.
  • Revealed new understandings of latency and resonance in relation to ecological knowledge.
  • Highlighted the role of listening as a critical political and relational act.
  • Showed how sound can reframe memories and responsibilities related to environmental practices.

Abstract

A Sonic Counter-Cartography of Eastern White Pines approaches listening as a spatial, relational, and political condition. Through field recording, biosonification, and generative soundscape composition, the project listens with Eastern White Pines across the Northeastern United States, cultivating immersive listening as an emergent archival practice. Sonic encounters register entanglements of Indigenous ecological knowledge, colonial extraction, enslavement, and ongoing climate crisis. Rather than mapping territory, the work composes counter-cartographies of resonance, latency, and loss. Beyond listening as perception, sound operates as situated knowing – reorienting how place and memory are held, and how responsibility is sensed. keywords:

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Clarke et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69fbf004164b5133a91a4444https://doi.org/10.22501/jss.4299623
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