Urban Sonic Derive - A Sonic Deterritorialization

The "derive" is a psycho-geographical technique with exploratory, politic and artistic purposes that consists in a break from the classical way of crossing a territory, and that prefers a casual way of walking and moving, letting oneself go to new stimuli and unexpected events and adopting new points of view.

It consists in taking escape routes from hegemonic notions of order, rationality and structure, encouraging the emergence of an open, borderless, unpredictable territory: the linearity of time is suspended, deceived by the transitions and hidden forces of the city; there is emotional disorientation. In this way it is possible to capture non-dimensional information that expands the vision of the territory: aspects and nuances from real life, information and sensations that help us to understand, deterritorialize and riterritorialize space. The urban context thus loses its organization, is reset and reconstructed through the emergence of new situations and new models.

In terms of sound, this becomes an act of decomposition, disintegration and subversion of the structured and organized urban soundscape, for the benefit of an emergence and reorganization of the individual elements that compose it: each sound-object-event takes on meaning as such, and not only as part of a structure, linked in an ecosystem, revealing in turn new meanings and languages.

All material was recorded, collected and processed in September 2021 in the city of Milan (Italy) for the performance by MMT Creative Lab “Parade Electronique 2021: Paesaggi Sonori” at Teatro Arsenale in Milan.

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Katatonic Silentio

Sound artist and independent researcher in Sonic Arts and Media Cultures; Scientific Board Member of USMARADIO: Interdepartmental Research Centre for Radiophonic Studies, UNIRSM; Curator of Expanded Radio Research Unit: an independent radio art platform for innovative works at the intersection of music, spoken word, performance and sound to challenge the limits of broadcasting; resident artist on EOS Radio.

Mariachiara, aka Katatonic Silentio, has been exploring the fields of experimental and electronic music with a unique approach to sound design, releasing music and performing in many national and international festivals, theaters and venues across Europe.
In addition to pursuing a career in music, Mariachiara is also active as an independent researcher: her practice converges halfway between sound and performance arts. Her keen curiosity for cultural studies, combined with a strong passion for music, led her to approach the world of sounds with a sociological and anthropological eye, viewing it as a critical device and indicator of society and its changes.

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