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I dedicate this work to Robin Wall Kimmerer’s call for acts of restoration for our damaged planet. I choose song composition and performance as a way to find pathways for personal and collective restoration. Through the methods of artistic research I write Songs inspired by my experience of ecological grief, academic reading, interviews to song composers, and journaling. As a contribution from my work, I present a new compositional methodology, Sonic Geographies of Hope. This methodology calls for song composers to write songs grounded in personal and collective grief of our damaged planet. I suggest that this type of songs can become an act of restoration and create collective resonance for more hopeful ways of existing and experiencing the world. This methodology is heavily influenced by the work of A. Hazelwood and her methodology Geographies of Hope in Praxis. While it is inspired by it, it focuses mainly on emotional geographies. This work represents a starting point to explore Song methodologies to nurture immaterial geographies for concrete, structural ecological restoration. It is an exploration to find ways to restore yourself to continue to fight for the dignity of the places, more-than human life and people we love.

type	research exposition
keywords	hope, active hope, song, composition, performance, geographies of hope, sonic geographies of hope, environmental and climate grief, act of restoration, sonic space, anthropocene, damaged planet., Robin Wall Kimmerer
date	24/07/2025
last modified	08/08/2025
status	in progress
share status	public
affiliation	Global Music Department, Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki
copyright	Angela Francisca Valenzuela Navarrete
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3804599/3804600

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name	Moth
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name	Watermelon
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name	Asters and Goldenrods
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name	Loica y sus flores
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name	Semilla de girasol
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name	Sonic Geographies of Hope, an animation
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name	Sonic Geographies of Hope Illustration 2
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name	End of Concert LOICA: Geographies of Hope
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name	Final celebration Sunflower Fields
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name	Eternal stream of luna
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name	What does hope mean to you? table
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name	Zine / What does Hope mean to you?
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