So You're Going on a “Short” Hike? Sensory Awareness and Listening to Ecoregions in A Short Hike

kate galloway is assistant professor in ethnomusicology and games at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she is cross-appointed to the Department of Arts and the interdisciplinary Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences program. Her research and teaching address sonic responses to environmentalism, sound studies, digital culture and interactive media, posthuman and animal studies, and Indigenous musical modernities and ecological knowledge. Her work is published in Popular Music, The Soundtrack, MUSICultures, Sound Studies, and Feminist Media Histories. She has coedited two special journal issues (American Music and Twentieth-Century Music) with K. E. Goldschmitt and Paula Harper that address the creative and social phenomena of internet music communities and practices of listening to the internet.