the feeling that frames any effort to communicate publicly

the same feeling accompanied my reading of last year’s horne prize winner – a hollow-bodied effervescence where the words take on a mysterious power, as though they hold secrets that a deeper reading would uncover, as though there’s a way of arranging words that is more desirable than any other way, as though there is…

with apologies for cross-posting,

but I also have Twitter  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and this important: Things I have learned over the course of my masters: 1. How contemporary music practices are conducive to wellbeing 2. How sitting down to write a thesis about it is not — Brigitta Scarfe (@BrigScarfe) August 10, 2018 To explain, I submitted my MA thesis on…

An article that I will read again

If you’re interested in the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory, this article by Russell Marks for The Monthly is fucking harrowing. “Kate moved interstate with Rachel and her two youngest children. “I googled supports for [Rachel] in different places before we moved,” she remembers. “It was the…

Wait, what am I doing

 I’ve been meaning to write this post ever since a friend pointed out how little of my research I’ve discussed on here. I have previously justified this silence with the argument that my research focus is only going to change, and if I’m going to have a public record of it it better be good…

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about me

hey there. welcome to my blog. i’m brigitta, a second-year phd student currently doing music/social research fieldwork in north-western Australia. this pocket of the ether is a place where i document some of my big ideas, big feelings, big epiphanies, big transfigurations along the way.

[read more about my project here]

“trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. meander if you want to get to town.” – michael ondaatje

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