Sonic Nuptials. Composition and Improvisation in a Double Capture: Refrain and Processes of Territorialization

Rogério Costa, Valéria Bonafé

Although there is an intermediate field between composition and improvisation, when discussing the differences between these two forms of musical creation the main issues that arise relate to dualities: deferred time and real time, intentionality and non- intentionality, controlled and non-controlled, predictability and unpredictability, work of art and process. In the collaborative project w...

conference: DARE 2017: aberrant nuptials
date: November 22, 2017
venue: Orpheus Institute, Concert Hall
format: in words
practice: music and sound
keywords: de/re-territorialisation, double capture, improvisation

East Meets West in France: Catching the Musical Scent

Edward Campbell

French modernism since Debussy has integrated within itself aspects of the music and culture of geographically diverse regions, including elements from China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and Vietnam. This paper focuses on the work of the generations of composers who succeeded Messiaen, Jolivet, and Ohana and Boulez in exemplifying how French modernism and the musics of the world encounter one ano...

conference: DARE 2017: aberrant nuptials
date: November 22, 2017
venue: Orpheus Institute, Concert Hall
format: in words
practice: music and sound
keywords: de/re-territorialisation

Interspecies Sonification: Deleuze, Ruyer and Bioart

Audronė Žukauskaitė

In A Thousand Plateaus Deleuze and Guattari famously argued that becoming is a non- linear connection between heterogeneous elements. As they point out, “we oppose epidemic to filiation, contagion to heredity, peopling by contagion to sexual reproduction. … Bands, human and animal, proliferate by contagion, epidemics, battlefields, and catastrophes… Unnatural participations or nupt...

conference: DARE 2017: aberrant nuptials
date: November 21, 2017
venue: Orpheus Institute, Penthouse
format: in words
practice: music and sound
keywords: biotechnology, Franz Kafka, Raymond Ruyer

Diverging Doubles: Between the Sensing Body and Its Projected Image

George Themistokleous

With the proliferation of electronic media, Gilles Deleuze’s conception of time-image is extended to various media platforms that lie outside the cinematic discourse. By moving beyond the cinematic confinements that physically distance the bodily viewer from the image, digital media, including augmented reality technologies, have allowed for changing interactive relations in the perc...

conference: DARE 2017: aberrant nuptials
date: November 21, 2017
venue: Orpheus Institute, Penthouse
format: in words
practice: image