Animal-assist, Cyber-augmented Gadgetry

[Randy Eady]

Unmediated, deep listening is best.

Still, what's good (therapeutically) is, on the odd occasion, to let your nervous system get a bee buzz or your brain bathe in some bat-echolocation sonics w/animal-assisted, cyber-augmented gadgetry.

In the tradition of ancient walking to primal rhythms:

There are long-standing Indigenous traditions of deep listening specifically attuned to nonhuman forms of vibro-acoustics and sounds.

So, ​as ​we combine digital listening—which is opening up vast new worlds (and spatial dimensionality to sound's texture in time) of nonhuman sound and decoding sound with artificial intelligence—with deep listening, we appear poised on what may be the brink of two important discoveries: first, language in nonhumans. Argumentatively controversial, yet explicitly ever more apparent.  

And the second, which is a logical extension of the first, being on the cusp of interspecies communication.​

​Taking a bigger view, I think it’s also important to acknowledge that listening to nature, “deep listening,” has a long and venerable tradition.

It’s an ancient art that is still richly practiced in an unmediated form as a sound walk/Sonic Walk:

For some historical context:  Visit Artist Robert Griffing's studio - Indigenous Caribbean Networ...