Proxemia (2017)

Performance (Califa, Melmann, Sguiglia)
Beca del Bicentenario (FNA). Noviembre Electrónico 2017.

The relationship between the instrument and the performer's body seems to weaken in digital instruments, as digital technologies are often perceived as immaterial and our relationships with them as disembodied. Digital instruments seem to articulate two separate spheres: on the one hand the proprioceptive experiences that are at the origin of musical expression and, on the other, abstract parameters that control the production of sound. However, working with any technology is traversed by bodily reconfigurations. Calling work with formal systems “abstract" loses sight of the concrete nature of human activities. Proxemia is a sound performance that explores the relationship between the movements involved in the execution of electroacoustic music and the sound they produce, through the deployment of a set of interactive digital instruments thought as a distributed cognition system.

Proxemia. Noviembre Electrónico 2017, CCSM.

Proxemia, fragments (live recording, Noviembre Electrónico 2017).

Authors

Jimena Califa, Nicolás Melmann, Fabián Sguiglia