Tory Johnston, 2022 Showcase

Quinault Musicking for Sound Healing

The Songs Remain on taptaana: Quinault Musicking for Sound Healing demonstrates a distinctly Quinault theory-crafting that transpired during the Summer of 2022. Through visiting and being in relation to one another, we developed a theory of Quinault musicking as a dense practice of resurgent worldmaking. Recognizing music and sound as Quinault ways of being, we speculated on sonically sovereign Quinault futures with the hydro-topographical relationships to our more-than-human kin in mind. In this process, we resist the neoliberal impulse to label ourselves as “subjects of trauma” and recognize the inextricable links between healing, governance, relationality, music, and sound.

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