In his book Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies, Dylan Robinson engages the Canadian new music scene, which is rooted in Western Classical music. In this excerpt, he expands upon the title to consider a multilayered constellation of meanings between shxwelítemelh (white person’s methods/things), xwelítem (white settler, or “starving person”) and xwélalà:m (listening). White settlers were hungry (starving) and also hungry for gold when they invaded indigenous territories in Western Canada. Robinson points out that cultural logics create particular forms of listening, which differ between settlers and indigenous people. What are the stakes of how we listen?