This article presents an artful analysis method coauthors created with more-than-human collaborators to make sense of a collaborative inquiry into their long-time creative sound practice. They discuss how Heron's whole person theory, posthuman concepts, and a multimodal data assemblage of sonic and textual, extant and researcher-created materials informed their methodological process and led to a sonopoetic collaging analysis-presentation. Mapping this inquiry's methodological trajectory, this article highlights key impasses researchers encountered, how decision-making at these specific junctures related to theories they were thinking with, and what each of these decisions produced. Following transcript excerpts from the audio collage created from this sonopoetic method we improvised, the article considers some wider significances of employing sonic methods in qualitative research.
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