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Notes
1. According to Leighton’s (Citation1922) report for the United States Bureau of Mines, the first geophones were used by the French military forces in World War I to detect hostile mining during trench warfare. Less sensitive than their electrified “seismicrophone” cousins, these acoustic geophones with stethoscopic earpieces allowed listeners to stereophonically locate movement in the earth (Leighton Citation1922).
2. The following interview with Dr. Bob Hardage of the University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology describes the seismic technology of extraction in further detail. https://earthsky.org/earth/bob-hardage-using-seismic-technologies-in-oil-and-gas-exploration/ (Hardage Citation2013).
3. Radano and Olaniyan via Wright: “sound creates and is created by empire” (Citation2022, 14).
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Harrison Montgomery
Harrison Montgomery is a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of Texas at Austin. Their dissertation project investigates Austin’s urban transformation from the ‘90s to the present, focusing particularly on the modalities across which experimental musical and sonic communities have listened and responded to this change. They are also an active sound artist, working primarily with the interdisciplinary O.S. Collective, a group which explores the intersections of sound art and ethnographic practice.
Megan Jeanne Gette
Megan Jeanne Gette is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation listens with Permian Basin communities making sense of oil and gas encroachment. She also works with the O.S. Collective.