Category: Publications

Here a reflection on complex narratives in the INTIMAL Long Distance Improvisation which happened on May 7, 2019. The publication is called “Ellos no están entendiendo nada” [“They are not understanding anything”]: embodied remembering as complex narrative in a Telematic Sonic Improvisation, was published as part of the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Media Art, Science, and Technology RE:SOUND 2019. Thanks to my co-author Alexander Refsum Jensenius.

Aquí un artículo de la investigación INTIMAL, publicado en el journal eWic BCS, como parte de la conferencia RE:SOUND 2019. Reflexionamos en las complejas narrativas desde el cuerpo en la improvisación INTIMAL A Larga Distancia. Gracias a mi co-autor Alexander Refsum Jensenius.

Authors: Ximena Alarcón Díaz and Alexander Refsum Jensenius

Abstract: “INTIMAL is a physical-virtual system for relational listening, exploring the role of the body as interface that keeps memory of place in migratory contexts. The system is developed to integrate the body movements of performers (and their voices) with an oral archive. The system has been informed and tested by nine Colombian migrant women in Europe in a telematic performance between the cities of Oslo, Barcelona and London. In the performance a “complex narrative” emerged, for both the improvisers and the audiences. In this paper, we describe the conditions of the narrative environment, and the embodied expressions that emerged. We reflect on how this distributed embodied expression—through technological mediated sound and movement interactions—might further aid processes of collective remembering and catharsis, in a context of conflict and gendered migration.”

I feel honoured for having published “Sensing Place and Presence in an INTIMAL Long-Distance Improvisation” in the new JONMA Journal of Network Music and Arts, first of its kind. Thanks to my co-authors and congratulations!

Alarcon Diaz, Ximena, Paul Boddie, Cagri Erdem, Eigil Aandahl, Elias Sukken Andersen, Eirik Dahl, Mari Lesteberg, and Alexander Refsum Jensenius. “Sensing Place and Presence in an INTIMAL Long-Distance Improvisation.” Journal of Network Music and Arts 1, 1 (2019). https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/jonma/vol1/iss1/3

Abstract:

“INTIMAL is an interactive system for relational listening, which integrates physical-virtual interfaces for people to sonically improvise between distant locations. The aim is to embrace two key aspects in the context of human migration: the sense of place and the sense of presence. This paper reflects on the use of INTIMAL in a long-distance improvisation between the cities of Oslo, Barcelona and London in May 2019. This improvisation was performed by nine Colombian migrant women, who had been involved in a research process using the Deep Listening® practice developed by Pauline Oliveros. Here we describe the performance setting and the implementation of the first two interfaces of the system: MEMENTO, an “embodied” navigator of an oral archive of Colombian women’s testimonies of conflict and migration; and RESPIRO, a sonification system that transmits and sonifies live, breathing signals between distant locations. We reflect on how the two interfaces facilitated and challenged the improvisers’ listening experiences and connections.”