2026-01 / LISTENING JOURNAL
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.
The playlist for January (2025-01) is now updated on the research page for my [listening journal], which is 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.
Below are the archived tracks from the previous journal entry.
2025-12:
Mello Buckzz. “Never Put You First” (Single), 2025.
Bladee & Ecco2k. “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” Crest, Year0001, 2022.
HiTech. “Empty Bus Stop (ft. Love Foxy).” HONEYPAQQ Vol 1, Loma Vista, 2025.
E. Bobby G. “Disco Shift.” Bobby Business, Research Records, 2024.
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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. ↩