Jonathan Sterne, author of The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction, calls it a listening technique. He points out that over the nineteenth century, listening became a skill, articulated within the field of western medicine. Dylan Carlsson calls it settler-colonial listening. She is not only the founder of the drone metal band Earth – she is the author of Hungry Listening, Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies. She ruthlessly tears into the way it prioritizes the capture and certainty of information over the affective feel, timbre, touch, and texture of sound. “It is a rational practice, gained through repeating similar actions, consistently!” Jonathan screams, in an attempt to impress Dylan. “It aims to instrumentalize the body!”