07-2026 / LISTENING JOURNAL
Monthly playlist for July + Archived tracks from June
LISTENING JOURNAL is a collection of playlists as journal entries, curated through embodied listening.1 Each entry offers a way to tap into a combination of my music taste, sounds I’m momentarily interested in, and different ways I’m building awareness of my participation in media culture through music.
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The playlist for July (07-2026) is now published in my [listening journal], a virtual page where these entries rotate. Through that page, you can listen to the current playlist, as well as check out any of the songs’ music videos. This journal entry sounds like crash landing into the underground, contemplating on the dance floor, then ending up speechless.
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Below are archived tracks from the previous journal entry.
06-2026:
Thundercat & Tame Impala. “No More Lies.” Brainfeeder, 2023.
The Third Eye Foundation. “Next of Kin.” Semtex (20th Anniversary Edition), Ici D’Alleurs, 2015.
Delta Waves. “Lovers Leap.” The Delta Waves Dream In Real Time, Burnt Hair; Top Quality Rock & Roll Release, 2002.
Joseph Shabason & Dawn Richard. “Broken Hearted Sade.” 2025.
Thomas Fehlmann. “Karnickel.” Böser Herbst, Kompakt, 2021.
Trashii. “Neo Industrial.” Blue Slot Archive, 2025.
Bby Kell. “2019.” 2026.
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Hope you encounter something that resonates with you,
Paris
Jenny Odell is a writer and artist who has theorized about doing or making ’nothing’ as a creative, resistive act. In her 2020 speech to Harvard School of Design graduate students (later published in print as Inhabiting the Negative Space), she gave the most accurate description I’ve heard thus far of the particular ‘listening’ that i’ve been journaling: “…being surprised by a song I liked for reasons I can’t actually explain… [When] something I don’t know feels like it’s talking to something else I don’t know, through me.” She mentions noticing this particular feeling while listening as a contrast to algorithmic music curation that uses data to constrict a person to a stable, marketable ‘brand’ of listener. ↩
