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This paper discusses the artistic practice of electronic dance poets The Long Dead Stars in relation to walking-arts (human mobility) and the movement of rock (non-human mobility), contextualising an environmental agenda through a walking-arts inspired aesthetic that playfully but seriously attunes with earth materials. Exploring the significance of aesthetics, we ask “how might an artistic collaboration with rocks, with Earth, enable a non-othering, where rock and human are equal?” Through practices such as channelling, deep listening, ludicerious aesthetics, scanning and dithering, we consider how aesthetics can contribute to a successful human-rock partnership. As is right when trying to repair a broken relationship, in this case between the human and non-human, we start with an apology, an Anthro-apology, before exploring how aesthetic practice might move the relationship forward.