Workshops – INTIMAL: Interfaces for Relational Listening

INTIMAL App©, INTIMAL Collective, Workshops

INTIMAL Hehringhonza – Sheffield, 18/06/2022

With Violeta Ospina, Calu, and Liliana Rodríguez, from the INTIMAL Collective we are very happy to offer a one-day hybrid workshop “INTIMAL Heh-ring-ghon-zah” in Sheffield, UK, as part of Migration Matters Festival ! This is a one-day hybrid (online and in person) workshop that invites women to listen and celebrate their migratory journeys. Using Deep Listening®, sound improvisation, and the INTIMAL App© they will connect with dreams, voice and languages, expanding their sonic space. Limited places. Book your tickets on https://www.migrationmattersfestival.co.uk/2022/intimal

INTIMAL Heh-ring-gon-za. Poster by Violeta Ospina

Dissemination, Interfaces, Workshops

Sensing INTIMAL App©

The Branderburg Centre for Media Studies (ZeM)

I was invited on May 26th and June 2nd to The Brandenburg Centre for Media Studies (ZeM) by the Research Group “SENSING: The Knowledge of Sensitive Media”, to share my research with the project INTIMAL, first stage, and to offer a Sentient workshop , involving Deep Listening®, Relational Listening, and experiencing the INTIMAL App© which is part of the second stage of the project. This time, the frame of the collective experience was proposed as “Dreaming while awake: for a network of presence“. Thanks to all the members of the group for engaging with the experience of listening, walking, and connecting to the place and to others, while experiencing different levels of presence. Thanks to Kate Donovan for the invitation!

INTIMAL is a telematic sound art research project and "embodied" system for listening to our sonic migrations.

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.

INTIMAL is conceived and led by the artist-researcher Dr. Ximena Alarcón Díaz who was awarded a Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship 2017-2019 at the RITMO Centre, Dept of Musicology, University of Oslo, for developing the first stage of this project. Now she is working independently and supported as a Resident at The Studio, Bath Spa University's Enterprise and Innovation Hub.

It was funded in its first stage by the Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship 2017-2019 awarded to Dr Ximena Alarcón Díaz, who developed it at the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo.

This project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 752884, and partial funding from the Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence scheme, project number 262762.