The attentive observer is herself situated inside the ecology she observes.

Evidence

This context, of course, also included me. I remember going for a walk near my parents’ house once and hearing a scrub jay shrieking in a valley oak tree. It was such a good example of a scrub jay shriek that I was about to get out my phone and record it, when I realized that it was shrieking at me (to go away). — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 526

Categorization

Category: Craft and Method

• XREF: Echoes Deep Listening’s premise that the listener is part of the soundscape, received by it.