Performing Palimpsest Bodies: Postmemory Theatre Experiments in Mexico by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco

Noriega, Jimmy A.

doi:10.1353/ltr.2020.0008

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“…Over the past few decades, the concept of the palimpsest has found increasing metaphorical and analytical salience across disciplines as diverse as architecture (e.g., Aksamija, Maines and Wagoner 2017), literary studies (e.g., Dillon 2014), psychology (e.g., Maniquis 2011) and the performing arts (Hellier 2019). In this scholarship, as archaeologist Bailey points out: the emphasis is on the interplay between erasure and inscription : : : between the text and the material medium through which it is expressed, and how that interplay creates complex layered and multi-temporal entities that disrupt conventional views of temporal sequence.…”

Section: Palimpsestmentioning

confidence: 99%

Debris: Machine learning, archive archaeology, digital audio waste

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Poliks²

2023

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This article fragments and processes Debris, a project developed to formalise the creative recycling of digital audio byproducts. Debris began as an open call for electronic compositions that take as their point of departure gigabytes of audio material generated through training and calibrating Demiurge, an audio synthesis platform driven by machine learning. The Debris project led us down rabbitholes of structural analysis: what does it mean to work with digital waste, how is it qualified, and what new relationships and methodologies do this foment? To chart the fluid boundaries of Debris and pin down its underlying conceptualisation of sound, this article introduces a framework ranging from archaeomusicology to intertextuality, from actor-network theory to Deleuzian assemblage, from Adornian constellation to swarm intelligence to platform and network topology. This diversity of approaches traces connective frictions that may allow us to understand, from the perspective of Debris, what working with sound means under the regime of machine intelligence. How has machine intelligence fundamentally altered the already shaky diagram connecting humans, creativity and history? We advise the reader to approach the text as a multisensory experience, listening to Debris while navigating the circuitous theoretical alleys below.

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Section: Palimpsestmentioning

confidence: 99%