I was very happy to have the chance to think about how music production has informed my ethnographic work in a blog post I wrote for the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology & Computing Platypus Blog. Below is the abstract and link for both the article and song I wrote and co-produced with a research participant in Norway last year:
While anthropological research methods have often focused on cataloging ethnographic moments through field notes and interviews, most ethnographers will agree that the written word can’t quite capture what it feels like to be in the field. As a musician, filmmaker, and producer in my work alongside anthropology, I decided to explore how skills associated with my songwriting and sound engineering might further explicate the effervescent quality of what fieldwork feels like on an embodied register.
https://blog.castac.org/2023/11/feeling-fieldwork-affectivity-co-creativity-and-multimodality-in-ethnographic-music-production/