“Ellos no están entendiendo nada” [“They are not understanding anything”]: embodied remembering as complex narrative in a Telematic Sonic Improvisation

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.

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Ximena Alarcón Díaz

Alexander Refsum Jensenius

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Publication date: August 2019

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Pages: 209-215

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/RESOUND19.32

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Conference name: RE:SOUND 2019 – 8th International Conference on Media Art, Science, and Technology

Conference acronym: RE:SOUND 2019

Conference number: 8

Conference location: Aalborg, Denmark

Conference date: August 20-23, 2019

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Media Art, Science, and Technology

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[1] X. Alarcon DiazP. BoddieC. ErdemE. AandahlE. S. AndersenE. DahlM. LestebergA. R. Jensenius 2019 Sensing place and presence in an intimal long-distance improvisation Journal of Network Music and Arts 1 1

[2] X. Alarcon Díaz 2019 Conceptual design for intimai: a physical/virtual embodied system for relational listening Journal of Somaesthetics 4 2

[3] X. Alarcon DíazS, V E. GonzalezC. Erdem 2019 Intimal: Walking to feel place, breathing to feel presence Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

[4] X. Alarcon 2015 Telematic embodiments: improvising via internet in the context of migration in D. Rothenberg ‘Vs. Interpretation: An Anthology on Improvisation’ 1 Agosto Foundation

[5] X. AlarconL. Lopez BO. LartillotH. Flamter-mesky 2019 From collecting an archive to artistic practice in the intimal project: lessons learned from listening to a colombian migrant women’s oral history archive Acervo. Revista do Arquivo Nacional 3 48 63

[6] J. E. Cross 2015 Processes of place attachment: An interactional framework Symbolic Interaction 38 4 493 520

[7] H. Gold 2008 Deeply Listening Body Deep Listening Publications Kingston, NY

[8] M. GrishakovaM. Poulaki 2019 Narrative Complexity, Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution University of Nebraska Press

[9] IONE 2005 Listening in Dreams iUniverse Books Lincoln, NE

[10] ISPR 2000 The concept of presence: Explication statement 15 01 19 https://ispr.info/

[11] A. Jensenius 2017 Sonic microinteraction in “the air.” in M. L. M. LesaffreP.-J. Maes ‘The Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction’ Routledge New York 431 439

[12] C. Jung 2003 Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle Routledge East Sussex

[13] K. L. Nowak 2001 Defining and differentiating copresence, social presence and presence as transportation

[14] P. Oliveros 2005 Deep Listening A Composer’s Sound Practice iUniverse, Deep Listening Publications Lincoln, NE

[15] Y.-F. Tuan 1977 Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis

[16] J. V. Wertsch 2002 Voices of collective remembering Cambridge University Press

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