I am very grateful for the invitation to talk at Exchange Talks, at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, on the last 24th of October. Thanks to Dr. Benjamin Redman, for the invitation, and to Dr J Simon van der Walt, for chairing the talk and the Q&A questions. Thanks to the attendees and your questions and comments regarding the use of the INTIMAL App in the Listening of Sonic Migrations, to work with family stories of migrants and the healing potential of this artistic intervention. Also the consideration to migratory animals, such as birds, which start to awake more and more in people’s aural journeys these days. The enthusiasm received in this talk, as well as the welcoming of the sonic alternatives that come with a lower budget, bringing an accessible tool, are really welcome.
“Through eliciting and compiling new writings from a formidable list of women with broad and diverse sound practices and expertise, O Keeffe and Nogueira have produced an intriguing volume”. Pamela Z
It includes book chapter contributions from an amazing selection of women, including Heather Frasch, @laurenhayes, @raquelstolf, Sanne Krogh Groth, Tânia Neiva, Irene Revell, @Luciana Lyra, Ida Mara Freire, Antye Greie- Ripatti (AGF/ poemproducer), Laila Rosa and @adrianagabrielasantostexeira, Lílian Campesato and Valéria Bonafé, Cat Hope, Susie Green and Margaret Schedel, @irinerosnes, Sophie Knezic, Ximena Alarcon, Sandra Pauletto.
I was honoured to be a keynote for the launch of this tremendous book! Thanks for the wonderful launch Linda O Keefe Isabel Nogueira and speakers Valéria BonaféLílian Campesato Heather Frasch, Sandra Pauletto, Jennifer Lynn Stoever & Liana Silva, and the workshop by Susie Green and Margaret Schedel! Really honoured to be the keynote speaker, thanks to all. Much learning and inspiration!
This issue of the Journal addresses the theme “Network Arts: Transformation of Distance.” Questions on different aspects of distance are addressed by the five articles involving different technologies, art practices and contexts, in contemporary times of connecting during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The reflection was presented first at the NowNet Arts Conference 2021, and with the feedback received and further reflections, the results are published here.
Thanks to Sarah Weaver and Corinna Kirsch, to make possible this publication, and congratulations on the full issue.
I am very grateful for the invitation to speak at the CTM Festival 2022, at the panel Contact with the more-than-human-world. The panel brought together reflections from Jono Gilmurray, Susan Schuppli and Faiza Ahmad Khan, AM Kanngieser and Zoe Todd. Curated by Anita Jóri, the panel explored how sound artists have engaged politically, socially and aesthetically with our environments, in the context of climate crisis. How our work might respond to the urgent questions of listening, and the negotiation of our position in relation to other more-than-human entities. I offered a talk on “Sonic Migrations: resonances that hold us as we walk through telematic rituals for agency.”
Today I participated with a talk in the Journees Thematics, reflecting on the INTIMAL Project since its beginning to the creation of the INTIMAL App.
Many thanks to Peter Sinclair for the invitation, and to the community for the nourishing questions about different social and artistic aspects of the project.
Hoy tuve el placer de presentar brevemente el proyecto INTIMAL, y participar con 28 creadorxs y sentipensantes de todas las esquinas en Latinoamérica, en el primer taller NIME Latinoamérica, en el marco del 18th Brazilian Symposium of Computer Music. NIME significa New Interfaces for Musical Expression, y queremos entendernos desde el contexto Latinoamericano:
“La Red de Investigación NIME Latinoamérica tiene como objetivo proveer un espacio para compartir recursos, tutoriales y repositorios para miembros de la comunidad, así como para visibilizar su trabajo. También buscamos organizar encuentros y eventos que serán comunicados en esta página y mediante nuestras plataformas de comunicación (por favor, contactar a los administradores para acceder a estas plataformas).Con esta red pretendemos dar los primeros pasos hacia la creación de una comunidad NIME latinoamericana así como también consolidar el futuro de esta comunidad al interior y más allá de NIME, abriéndonos a otras comunidades de América Latina e inspirando cambios políticos para apoyar el desarrollo de nuestras comunidades locales.” Interesades en hacer parte de esta Red nos pueden contactar a lxs organizadorxs. Es una experiencia muy enriquecedora, única y necesaria para nuestros retos Glocales!
We are proud of sharing this issue with other 18 experiences using digital technologies in different ways to use digital media to connect, help, heal and stand for migrant’s needs and rights all over the world.
We are grateful the editors and the team that makes this possible!
Thanks to Mark Peter Wright for including me on this Listening Across Disciplines podcast which was broadcast on November 11 in Resonance FM. I am talking about my expectations and learning with the INTIMAL project and how much listening I have practiced in the making of this project!
“New series examining Auditory Practices across Arts, Science and Technology, through conversations, lab and field demonstrations and environmental sounds. Each episode creates its own listening journey and entangles different voices and approaches with the spaces in which listening takes place. Today: Episode 6. Sound Arts. Conversations reflect on artistic methods and practices of listening. Interviewees include: Dr. Ximena Alarcón, Professor Angus Carlyle, Dr. Matt Parker and Syma Tariq. Produced by Mark Peter Wright and Salomé Voegelin at CriSAP, UAL. Visit www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net for full information. Twitter: @listenacross Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ListeningAcrossDisciplines/“
I had the great opportunity of sharing INTIMAL Art-Research work in Physically Distant 2, a series of conversations on Telematic Performance organised by Federico Visi and Stefan Östersjö from the GEMM))) the Gesture Embodiment and Machines in Music research cluster at the School of Music in Piteå, Luleå University of Technology Thanks to the organisers and the audience, and for the open format.
My final reflection is about knowing our departure and intention to create the platform (or set of technologies) that give us agency for listening and sounding through telematics. INTIMAL System modules as prototype, informed by Embodied Listening holistic research (using Deep Listening ® and Embodied Music Cognition), are an example of what can be designed for telematic sonic performance.
INTIMAL’s vision is to expand people’s sense of place and sense of presence, with the use of embodied interfaces and networking technologies in live improvisatory sound performances, interconnecting people across local and distant locations, while creating dream-like narratives of place.
Through Relational Listening INTIMAL supports exercises on collective memory: walking in search for place, breathing to feel presence.
Food for thought and encouragement for continuing with the good work.
Streaming from Bath for “Absurdity” by Franziska Schroeder and Matilde Meireles
Franziska Schroeder – LiveSHOUT and Pessoa reading (English)
Matilde Meireles – LiveSHOUT and Pessoa reading (Portuguese)
Maria Mannone – LiveSHOUT streams of piano improv from Palermo
Maria Papadomanolaki – LiveSHOUT streams of sounds from Crete
Anna Xambó – LiveSHOUT streams of sounds from Sheffield
Nela Brown – LiveSHOUT streams of sounds from London
Ariane Stolfi – LiveSHOUT streams of sounds from Porto Seguro and playsound.space
Ximena Alarcón – LiveSHOUT streams of sounds from Bath.
We used live streams through LiveShout app “designed to facilitate multiple streaming points and multiple listening points, what we call ‘distributed listening’“, at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, in partnership with Locus Sonus, by Franziska Schroeder and Pedro Rebelo. A snippet of the performance can be heard in this Federico Visi’s tweet. Thanks to all for the sharing.
Charla en el marco de La Escucha Profunda como práctica sensibilizadora y revolucionaria
Fue un privilegio ofrecer una charla para el proyecto “Mujeres al borde del Ruido” liderado por Laura Zapata y Juliana Ortigoza, en Plataforma Bogotá – Colombia. Contar con la presencia de lxs jovenes residentes en este laboratorio, y sentir su escucha atenta a la trayectoria de mi arte, confirmó para mí la relevancia de la escucha individual y colectiva en tiempos inciertos. Gracias a las organizadoras, y felicitaciones por este proyecto tan importante, ganador de la Beca Plataforma Bogotá – Arte, Ciencia y Tecnología 2019–2020.
Este laboratorio “espera propiciar espacios de creación sonora, cuyo eje articular aborde las estéticas de mujeres creadoras en relación con la tecnología y el sonido. El laboratorio propone el encuentro y diálogo con compositoras contemporáneas que han incorporado la tecnología en la música (electroacústica).”
INTIMAL: Interfaces for Relational Listening 