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Lands and Genotypes
Emmanuel lorien spinelli →515 listeners901 plays
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LANDS AND GENOTYPES, 2005-2010 ACOUSTIC PHENOTYPOLOGY: The territory of the disembodied voice in electro-acoustic music and the perception of Acousmatic Identities In recent years, Acousmatic music has become a growing field of research in musicology. Issues related to environmental awareness, notions of place, placelessness, language and identity remain largely unresolved despite an already extensive literature written on the subject. As a composer and researcher, I am interested in working with Language as my main source material, focusing on the disembodied voice as a potential representation of one's psychological and socio-political identity, one’s persona. In order to discuss this issue, through the presentation and analysis of my own work but also looking at other pieces and recordings ranging from early sound-poetry (and Dadaism) to contemporary art practices and sound-art, I intend to tackle the issues of transcendence, cognition, memory, text and data manipulation, technology, presentation techniques and the implications of hyperreality, using some of the tools of phenomenology and philology, Lacanian theory, and post-structuralism. I shall discuss as well the semiotics of archives and diaries (as pre-existing documents and/or "audio-diaries" in the form of recorded interviews based on one's personal confession, both used in the composition as source material and informing the overall structure of the works, there
