Witching Sound in the Anthropocene (and Occultcene)

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Ferrett, D ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8421-6308 (2025) Witching Sound in the Anthropocene (and Occultcene). In: The Witch Studies Reader. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, USA, pp. 262-274. ISBN 978-1-4780-3135-2

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This chapter proposes that, in an era described as the Anthropocene, which names the dominance of human impact on the planet, witching sound makes audible an Occultcene and manifests other forms of life, touch, agency and potential impact. Drawing from feminist musicology and sound studies, the chapter offers deep listening and witching sound as the means by which one might engage with the tensions and agencies that oscillate between the Anthropocene narrative and the potentialities of the Occultcene. Divide and Dissolve’s album Gas Lit is presented as a witching sound that produces affective musical intensity in response to violence against people and the Earth: misogyny, racism, murder and/or the theft of indigenous lands. The chapter argues that Divide and Dissolve’s Gas Lit demonstrates the interconnectedness of violence and power whilst cultivating a countering witching sound that attempts to transform power relations and re-imagine futures.

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Additional Information: D Ferrett, "Witching Sound in the Anthropocene (and Occultcene)," in The Witch Studies Reader, eds. Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward, pp. 262-274. Copyright 2025, Duke University Press. All rights reserved. By permission of the publisher. www.dukeupress.edu
ISBN: 978-1-4780-3135-2
Subjects: Philosophy & Psychology
Performing Arts > Music & Sound
Department: Academy of Music & Theatre Arts
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Depositing User: D Ferrett
Date Deposited: 17 Oct 2024 09:58
Last Modified: 13 Aug 2025 15:40
URI: https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/5570
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