Towards a Response-Able Electroacoustic Composition Practice: In Search of Sympoietic Multivalence

Authors : Fulya UÇANOK

Pages : 31-46

Doi:10.33906/musicologist.885272

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Publication Date : 2021-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This paper proposes a relational model for electroacoustic composition practice. In the model, relationality focuses on perspectives of response-ability of the composer with more-than-human agents, within an entangled sympoietic musical space. Here, the response-practices are built on acts of listening that entail, aural analysis and embodied practice with material objects. Within the scope of this paper, more-than-human agents are narrowed down to only recorded sounds insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(fixed media sound files); and physical material objects. In investigating such response-able compositional practices, the model follows Post-humanist and New-materialist strands focusing on various concepts proposed by Karen Barad and Donna Haraway. And in doing so, it aims to re-figure some of the conventional discourses about the concepts of poietic agency, and of multivalence within the composition practice.
Keywords : Electroacoustic composition, Response able composition, Sympoiesis, Material agency, Intra action, Sound based composition