Walking alongside me: listening, moving, performing and mapping the everyday

Authors

  • Rui Chaves independent researcher

Keywords:

soundwalk, authorship, storytelling, cartography

Abstract

This article firstly introduces a mosaic of historical, theoretical and artistic inspirationsfor an on-going practice-based research focused on exploring the act of moving and listening through everyday space as an affective endeavor: the possible emergence of sensations, feelings or memories that modify our bond with a place. This poetic attitude permeates my thinking in regards to these elements: the mediation of my bodily and authorial presence; the design of a performance path through everyday space; the exploration of mobile audio technology as a presentational apparatus. These elements are described in performance works that explore: the ability of the listening subject to write their own story (walkwithmeand intoaforeignland); the usage of audio-visual documentation strategies in order to feed the creation of a live cartographic performance (come across).

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Author Biography

Rui Chaves, independent researcher

Rui Chaves is a Portuguese sound artist, performer, and researcher. From 2015-2018, he was a postdoctoral researcher at NuSom with a project focused on creating an online ‘archive’ on Brazilian sound art. He holds a Ph.D. in music from Queen’s University Belfast. His doctoral research foregrounded a discussion of presence — both physical and authorial — in the process of making sound art. His current interests lie in developing collaborative accounts of post-disciplinary contemporary sound artworks produced within the Global South. He co-edited with Fernando Iazzetta, Making it heard: a history of Brazilian sound art. 

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Published

2020-01-25

How to Cite

Chaves, R. (2020). Walking alongside me: listening, moving, performing and mapping the everyday. DEBATES - Cadernos Do Programa De Pós-Graduação Em Música, (23). Retrieved from https://seer.unirio.br/revistadebates/article/view/9712

Issue

No. 23 (2019): Revista Debates - dossiê Criação Musical e Sonologia

Section

Papers