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Buffered Daemons

Sound art performance exploring the concept of translation and containers by in both digital and analog realms

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00:31:26
Language
English
Abstract
The work titled Buffered Daemons is a sound performance that attempts to explore the concepts of translation and non-local interaction in the sound realm. It does so by playing with the idiosyncrasies of audio representation/playback and mobilises them through the creation of an expanded musical situation.

In the piece, three different containers of sound are presented: acoustic(Sound diffusion in the architecture), digital (computer based sound algorithms) and analogue (electromagnetic tape and analog processing). This containers, or buffers, are then being intertwined by the performer creating thus sonic textures that interplay with the resonances of the space.

The strategy for the sound performance is to articulate a metaphor of a circular-buffer, a data structure used in Computer Science, to the idea brought upon in Derrida’s interview with Ornette Coleman, in which Improvisation practice in music is understood as a reading in which the borders between reading and writing are obfuscated.

The work is inspired by the concept of daemon and non-locality explored by Timothy Morton in his reading of Plato’s Ion as well as Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.

Talk ID
12138
Event:
37c3
Day
3
Room
Saal Zuse
Start
11 p.m.
Duration
00:40:00
Track
Art & Beauty
Type of
concert
Speaker
Other Artists
Pedro A. Ramírez
Talk Slug & media link
37c3-12138-buffered_daemons
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