Status Updates From Sonorous Desert: What Deep ...

Can an acoustic ecology of belonging tend and cultivate an inclusive way to listen deeply in the present into the past, to the ways in which sounds shape, our inner sense of self, and the soundscapes around us? Might the sounds of a place, flowing in and around place, and intermingling, with other sounds, teach us about what it means to belong?

In some cases, the ruins of past lives became the home of present lives. At other times, their arrival required the active removal of those who lived there. Newcomers made these places “their own,“ often times by imagining a desert that was empty, uninhabited, and by reshaping the desert landscape.