MuSes considers sound as a modality of being and knowing in the world and thus as a powerful route for exploring and transforming our relationships with human and non-human others amid the current crises. Combining multispecies ethnography with sonic methodologies and philosophy for children, MuSes develops arts of attentiveness towards multispecies communities as resilient and critical survival skills towards sustainable co-living. The project unfolds in three progressive stages in two schools with 50 children – LISTENING, QUESTIONING, and REMIXING – producing a range of fieldnotes, audio and visual materials. The combined effect of MuSes advances understanding of our multispecies communities in their complexity, critical examination of the political and environmental consequences of our ways of listening and hearing, and possibilities for creative responses. Through this it contributes to conceptual and practical developments of non-anthropocentric education.
