Resonant Ecologies, Session 2: Leah Barclay and Alice Eldridge

Resonant Ecologies: Music and more-than-human creativities Seminar Series 1 (online), 2025–2026 Co-curated by Liza Lim (Sydney) & Nicolas Donin (Geneva)

Ecological thinking is reshaping music and musicology, challenging us to rethink what music is, does, and allows. This seminar explores how musical practices engage webs of connection—from infrastructure to imagination—and open pathways for collaboration and coevolution between human and more-than-human musics.

First Nations knowledge systems offer profound models of ecological attunement, where sound is inseparable from Country, kinship, and custodianship. These perspectives remind us that music is not only made by humans but is part of a living web of relationships that includes rivers, winds, animals, and ancestral presences.

Grounded in composition, performance, and musicology, and committed to cross-disciplinary collaboration, we ask:

· What creative practices foster ecological consciousness?

· How can music think beyond representation?

· What does sound offer that text and image cannot?

Mottos to guide our inquiry:

· “We are not alone” – Who or what else is present when we musick?

· “Let’s think against Aboutism” – Beyond messaging, music as ecological thinking.

· “Sounding ecologies” – What comes to us specifically through sound?

Join us in exploring more-than-human creativity—including AI, animal communication, and the expressive agencies of trees, waters, winds, and other non-human entities. This series invites participants to listen deeply, think relationally, and engage with music as a medium of ecological consciousness and cultural responsibility.

You may also be interested in the other sessions in this seminar series:

Session 1: Hollis Taylor and Dylan Robinson (October 22, 2025)

Session 2: Leah Barclay and Alice Eldridge (November 21, 2025)

Session 3: Helen Prior and Tore Størvold (February 27, 2026)