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Ximena Alarcón-Díaz, PhD
Sonic Migrations Artist - Researcher
INTIMAL Environment, Deep Listening®, Telematic Sonic Performances
Unravelling/Desenredando - Surround Sound Installation
INTIMAL App - Tuning to sense place and tele-presence
INTIMAL - Colombian Migrant Women. Listening to their Sonic Migrations
In INTIMAL project I explored how does the body becomes an interface that keeps and transforms memory of place, in the context of human migration. Furthermore, how can people improvise and transmit a full emotional body experience with non-screen-based interfaces. The research led to the creation of an “embodied” physical-virtual system of interfaces for relational listening, to be used in telematic sonic performance. The INTIMAL system combines interactive audio and transmission software through MEMENTO, RESPIRO and TRANSMISSION software prototypes. The first two use sensor based technology to create interrelations between body movement, oral archives, voice and spoken language within an improvised performance situation.
The system was informed by research on the migratory listening experiences from nine Colombian migrant women in Europe, using Deep Listening® practice and methods of Embodied Music Cognition and Human Computer Interaction. It was tested in a telematic performance, on May 7, 2019, connecting women across the sites of Oslo, Barcelona and London. INTIMAL was developed thanks to a Marie Skłodowska Curie funded postdoctoral research project at the RITMO Centre in the University of Oslo (2017-2019).
The system was informed by research on the migratory listening experiences from nine Colombian migrant women in Europe, using Deep Listening® practice and methods of Embodied Music Cognition and Human Computer Interaction. It was tested in a telematic performance, on May 7, 2019, connecting women across the sites of Oslo, Barcelona and London. INTIMAL was developed thanks to a Marie Skłodowska Curie funded postdoctoral research project at the RITMO Centre in the University of Oslo (2017-2019).
INTIMAL - Embodied Physical/Virtual System of Interfaces for Relational Listening
Telematic Sonic Performances
Sounding Underground - Interactive Sonic Environment
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