Co-Creating a Posthuman Sonopoetic Collaging Method

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Abstract

This paper presents an artful data analysis method we co-created to make sense of a collaborative inquiry (Heron, 1996) into our creative sound practices. We discuss how the nature of our inquiry, focused on affective experiencing of music-making, and the abundance of audio data materials it produced led to experimenting with sonic and poetic ways of finding resonances in our multimodal empirical materials. In our methodological searching for an adequate analytical approach, we ultimately devised our sonopoetic analysis and presentational method by combining sonic collaging, textual sonifying, and posthuman cut-up poetry methods. The paper concludes by considering some of the potential wider implications of this sonopoetic method for how qualitative research may be conducted in more socially just ways.

Authors

• Shannon Perry, Valdosta State University

• Michael Pierce