From the Bedroom to the Moon: Tuning into the Relations of Children and Music through Spacetimemattering

Authors

• Synnøve Kvile Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.141623

Keywords:

Music Education, Agential realism, Spacetimematter, Posthumanism, Childmusicking

Abstract

Visiting family homes to intra-view children about their relations to music open doors into family houses, digitization of music and children, trampolines, composing songs to stop climate changes, and bodies dancing before the researcher’s, and iPhone’s gaze. Through stories and visual artworks, the phenomenon childmusicking is diffracted through Karen Barad’s concept spacetimematter. This article gives a taste of how spatial, temporal, and material agencies intra-acts within childmusicking. The article articulates how childmusicking is entangled with global matters such as the climate crisis, and it troubles binaries such as adult–child, nature–culture, humans–non-humans, matter-–meaning.