A tangle near silence

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This thesis is a byproduct of a program of artistic practice research in which I used quiet sound to orient experience towards entanglement. My understanding of entanglement speculatively mingles Donna Haraway’s sympoiesis, Karen Barad’s intra-action, and Gilbert Simondon’s transindividuation, and finds further company in the process philosophies of Brian Massumi and Henri Bergson, the queer phenomenology of Sara Ahmed, and the everyday aesthetics of Yuriko Saito. My artistic research began by continuing my practice of composing music that used extreme quiet in a performance setting to encourage embodied sensitivity to acoustic, physical, and social environments. My experimentations quickly broadened, partly owing to the pandemic, to include more diverse situations and practices. Thanks to the refractive and reflexive capacities of practice research, I investigated entanglement and process in my own experience as well as in the experiences I contributed to with my works. As a result, notions of speculation, discovery, byproduct, and feedback became central to my understanding of what it means to, in Haraway’s terms, ‘stay with the trouble’. In addition to various sonic exercises, software tools, situated techniques, and scraps of wood, as well as this thesis, my practice research produced a number of artworks: the compositions Pith for solo violoncello, Common for three players on one concert bass drum, and Ripples for solo percussionist; the interactive web scores What’s at Hand and Revelling in Mists of Constellations of Pine Points and Waltzes; the wandering public sound installation Pathside Box; and the self-constructed tactile feedback sculpture Haptic Box.

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Supervisors:	Iddon, Martin and Thurley, Oliver
Related URLs:	Author website (Author)
Keywords:	music, experimental music, sound art, feedback, quiet, entanglement, sympoiesis, intra-action, transindividuation, transduction, materialism
Awarding institution:	University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Music (Leeds)
Depositing User:	Mr. David Andrew Riedstra
Date Deposited:	18 Mar 2024 14:55
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2024 14:55
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:etheses.whiterose.ac.uk:34244

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