ALASKA STORY PROJECT
- Hank Lentfer
- Mar 10, 2022
- 1 min read
Dan Kowlaski has a fine ear for story. And, lucky for us, he's putting those skills to good creating podcasts as part of the Alaska Story Project. I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Dan on a few stories. You can listen to the results (and check out all of Dan's work by visiting his website. Enjoy!
Your reflection on the Alaska Story Project episode that foregrounds attentive listening to nonhuman voices really resonates because it treats sound not as a backdrop but as an epistemological entry point into place and memory, something that goes beyond simple reportage and gestures toward a kind of acoustic ethnography of Southeast Alaska. By highlighting Lentfer’s account of “acoustic awakening” and the way individual animal calls are woven into personal and communal narrations you invite readers to think about storytelling as a multisensory practice rather than a purely linguistic one. In some interdisciplinary research forums I’ve participated in a New Assignment Help Company dedicated to providing premium tailored academic support for university students across all major Australian cities mentioned as a way…