documentación sonora de los paseos sonoros 'mis pies escuchan despacio' realizados en Alcañices, Fermoselle, Riofrío de Aliste y La Bóveda de Toro del 28 de junio al 2 de julio dentro de la programación de Cultivando mirandas 2023
https://susanajimenezcarmona.net/mis-pies-escuchan-despacio/

Mis pies escuchan despacio Cultivando miradas 2023

wi watt’heure #43
En conversation avec une pionnière des arts sonores:
Christina Kubisch 

Par Elena Biserna et Carole Rieussec


wi watt’heure #43 est dédié à Christina Kubisch, une artiste qui a marqué l’histoire des arts sonores. Depuis les années 70, elle explore de nouveaux territoires, espaces, dispositifs et technologies, en ouvrant le champ de la musique et en rompant avec les canons de la composition musicale et des avant-gardes. Cette démarche commence par une critique d’un milieu musical fortement dominé par les hommes avec la série de performances Emergency Solos (1974-75). Dans les années suivantes, son parcours s’articule entre ses collaborations avec le plasticien Fabrizio Plessi et ses installations avec les champs électromagnétiques, la vidéo, la lumière ultraviolette… Puis elle  démarre une série de promenades, Electrical Walks (2003-en cours), créée dans 89 villes à travers le monde (et prochainement de retour en France, à Besançon). Aujourd’hui le travail de Christina Kubisch continue à investir des espaces et des contextes différents et à forcer les limites disciplinaires en s’irradiant entre composition électroacoustique ou pour ensembles instrumentaux, installation, promenades et création radiophonique. 

Cet entretien réalisé à Berlin pour wi watt’heure retrace cette trajectoire singulière en commençant par le début du travail de l’artiste et ses expériences dans deux domaines – la musique et la technologie – encore très marqués par des asymétries de pouvoir, de visibilité et de légitimité liées au genre. Les récits, les compositions et les sons de Christina nous accompagnent pour découvrir sa démarche dès ses installations des années 80 jusqu’à son travail actuel et ses compositions mixtes pour voix et ondes électromagnétiques ; un point de vue à la fois personnel et politique sur 45 ans d’expérimentation incessante dans l’art et la musique. 


Image : Christina Kubisch, It’s so touchy, 1976. Courtesy of the artist.

wi watt'heure # 43 : En conversation avec Christina Kubisch

In this podcast, artist and researcher Susana Jiménez Carmona talks with scientists Claudio Barría, a marine biologist, and Michel André, a bioacoustician. Both are involved to different degrees in the artistic production and research project ruido ê by Silvia Zayas, an audiovisual and performing artist—a fragment of the film ruido ê can be seen on this same platform. Some issues raised by or arising during the development of this project are addressed here by Barría and André, including interspecific coexistence in coastal cities, encounters with elusive electric rays, the effects of anthropogenic noise on living creatures and marine ecosystems, and collaborations between disparate humans.

Text by Susana Jimenéz Carmona

Credits:
Conducted by Susana Jimenez Carmona
Contributors: Michel André and Claudio Barria

Tan lejos tan cerca, ruido (So far so close, noise)

Presentación de libro	
«El paseo de Jane. Tejiendo redes a pie de calle»
Sábado, 21. Mayo 2016 - 19:00 - 21:00
Con la participación de Luis de la Cruz, Ana Useros, Carlos Vidania y Susana Jiménez Carmona. Modera: Beatriz García.

En 2010, prende 'el paseo de Jane' en Madrid. Desde entonces esta iniciativa se ha ido extendiendo por los distintos barrios de la ciudad y ha sido tomada por diferentes colectivos, asociaciones vecinales, espacios o cualquiera que se ha animado a conocer lo que sucede en su barrio a pie de calle. Este año, 2016, se cumple el centenario de la urbanista Jane Jacobs, quien da nombre a nuestros paseos y nos anima a poner en valor la experiencia propia y compartida que tenemos de nuestras ciudades. Por ello, para homenajearla y para recoger la memoria tramada durante estos años nos hemos animado a escribir este libro plural y diverso que pretende invitar a salir a las calles para ver, escuchar y pensar la ciudad en que vivimos y trazamos.

 

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«El paseo de Jane. Tejiendo redes a pie de calle»

What silence keeps : a political listening of silence in sound practice
Susana Jimenez Carmona 
Facultat de Bellas Artes, Universitat de Barcelona 

With this communication we want to examine how some sound practices approach silence from the political commitment. Therefore, we want to question how a political listening of silence would be. To this end, we will analyse a composer and a group of sound artists whose artistic practices are defined as political and who place silence at the centre of their work: Luigi Nono (in his last period) and Ultra-red.

Nono and Ultra-red understand listening to silence as a political practice by itself because it implies both the inter-subjectivity and the abandonment of certainties. Listening always means listening to others, that is, putting those who listen in the risk of being affected and questioning the preconceived ideas. This may allow opening other possibilities. It is not just about disrupting perception, but also about transforming the world in which we live.

Silence becomes a focus of Nono's work since the late 1970s. After a deep crisis, the composer abandons certainties and immerses himself in a process of unlearning and listening. In his latest works, Nono places performers and listeners within the tense line that borders the inaudible to discover us unheard possibilities which remain silenced by ideologies, knowledge or beliefs. Likewise, for Nono, silence as a musical pause would condense a non-linear, uncertain, fragmentary and heterogeneous temporality which allows exploring other possibilities. He does not abandon hope for the transformation of the world (as his critics say), only the certainty of how this change should or will be.

Silence is one of the main focuses in the career of Ultra-red. For instance, it is the subject of their 10 Preliminary Theses on Militant Sound Investigation, and also of SILENT | LISTEN, which explored the affective panorama of the AIDS crisis from the sound. For Ultra-red, silence is a requirement and an objective, against the activism which understands silence as a failure. The “Militant Sound Investigation” advocated by Ultra-red is conducted by “technicians of silence” who know that the microphone is not a neutral and objective instrument (the role of the microphone with regard to silence is also very important in Nono). Their objective is to practice a collective listening attentive to what is silenced, looking for contradictions and putting preconceived ideas in crisis. “Organising the silence” refuses to be a speaker of the already-known slogans. This makes the artistic practice of Ultra-red a highly critical proposal within their own areas of action: groups in struggle.

Therefore, the political listenings of silence proposed by Nono and Ultra-red look for paying attention to silence in order to question perceptive and political certainties and to explore changes which transform ourselves and our world.

What silence keeps : a political listening of silence in sound practice - Susana Jimenez Carmona

A magic postcard from Mali, Africa, where the Fula people herd and worship their cattle. Recorded by Félix Blume (https://soundcloud.com/felixblume) in 2005.
Mixed by Samuel Hirsch - Produced by http://arteradio.com

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