Mathew Klotz

affiliation: Creative Arts Research Institute, Griffith University
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Dr Mathew Klotz (they/them) is a researcher, writer, saxophonist, improvisor, and composer living and working on the unceded land of the Turrbal and Yuggera Peoples in Meanjin (Brisbane, Australia). They are an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Creative Arts Research Institute, Griffith University, where their work involves mapping intersections between music(ology), queer and gender studies, and critical posthumanism, particularly the work of Karen Barad.

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  • The Plane of Cicadas: On the Possibility of Making Kin through Musicking (2023) author(s): Mathew Klotz published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    This autoethnographic exposition details a short series of musicking encounters aimed at making kin in a rainforest-covered mountain on unceded Djiru Country on the east coast of Australia. Each encounter consisted of a short hike and a discrete musical encounter with local subjectivities. The inquiry considers the place of the walking in the musicking, and my joint response-ability with my saxophone (or the ways in which we apprehend and respond to other subjectivities) in each encounter. I argue that the hiking and discrete sonic encounters became entangled processes, in which my epistemological capacity and music-making practice were challenged and the possibility of kinship resides.
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