Abstract

Sounds are motions, vibrations, affordances, and key tools for intra- and interspecies exchanges. This paper explores how emotions from sounds constitute embodied pathways to push the limits of perspectival anthropocentrism towards interspecies understanding. It suggests that sounds can serve as empathic bridges that connect our emotions to other species’, such as bees. Sound combinations (harmonies, rhythms, melodies) are tied to specific emotions in patterns that can be explained by the physics, ecology and biology of sounds. As we share these tools with bees and other species, by learning to listen, we could grasp echoes from their buzzing inner worlds.