ZOOMUSICOLOGY/BIOMUSICOLOGY
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| One of my major areas of interest is the relationship between bird and other animal songs and human music. I have explored this topic in writing as well as musically. (There's an interview with me on this topic on George Tomb's website Evidentia.) |
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| My dissertation (Princeton, 2007), Other Species' Counterpoint: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Human Music and Animal Songs attempts to answer the question of whether it makes sense to consider some animal songs to be "music" in the same sense as human music. |
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| My article Crickets in the Concert Hall (published in TRANS: Transcultural Music Review in June 2008) looks at how humans in a variety of cultures and time periods and cultures have used animal songs in music. |
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| There are a number of other people working on these and similar topics. Two people who have been particularly influential on my work are Dario Martinelli at University of Helsinki and Tecumseh Fitch at St. Andrews University. Other interesting people working on this topic are composer and biologist Antoine Ouellette, bird recordist and composer Magnus Robb, performer/philosopher David Rothenberg, musician Hollis Taylor, multimedia artist Debra Swack and anthropologist Andrew Whitehouse. (If you're working in this field and want to be included on this list, please let me know.) |
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| If you're interested in similar topics, please get in touch -- I'd love to hear from you! (emilydoolittle (at) gmail.com) |
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| OTHER WRITING | ||||||||||||||||||
| Here is a short paper reflecting on my experiences as a member of R. Murray Schafer's collaborative project And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon. |
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| More writing coming soon. | ||||||||||||||||||