Mixed-Music Composition and Research-Creation
Dissolving into the Pluriverse comprises a mixed-music composition, research-creation project (research-through-creation) that includes an animated graphic score, performance of the score on an interdisciplinary performance design for piano and invented automated instruments (two channels videos) and a scholarly reflection, with a focus on sonic narratives, local histories and memories in traditional and indigenous artisan cultures in Asia and South America. I use ancient/ indigenous technologies and engineering of making crafts and bring them into a sonic scenario, and with them think though art and reflect on soundscapes and practices that are forgotten with time. By means of this creation/performance, I aim to criticize the systems of cultural domination, the emergence of dominant technologies into handcrafts and the ways in which the technology itself has become an agent of ordering and structuring. Looking at the concept of technology as practice enables me to critic the prescriptive technology as a form of control over what the modern subject calls “primitive” which functions as a tool for cultural appropriation, division of labour and control over processes of “othering”. I claim that rethinking the concept of technology and investing in decolonial projects create experiences that recognize the irreducibility of any true pluralism to the principle of the one and define the Pluriversality as co-existance of multiple cosmologies connected in a power differential. I therefore suggest complexity and chaotic, instead of rational and classified understandings of the world, should be taken into account as dynamics in creation of technology and of production of knowledge and subjectivity.