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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00869
- Thesis Title
- Experimental approach on Wind-Human collaborative crafting
- Author
- José Manuel Páez Moncaleano
- E-mail
- jo_pamo AT yahoo.com
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- MA in Sonic Arts
- Year
- 2014
- Number of Pages
- 21
- University
- Queen's University, UK
- Thesis Supervisor
- Paul Stapleton
- Supervisor e-mail
- p.stapleton AT qub.ac.uk
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Language(s) of Thesis
- English
- Department / Discipline
- Sonic Arts
- Copyright Ownership
- CC 3.0
- Languages Familiar to Author
- English / Spanish
- URL where full thesis can be found
- archive.org/details/kite-luterie-jose-paez-ma-sonic-arts
- Keywords
- Lutherie, wind, folk practice, interface, sound, kulturtechnik.
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- This text encapsulates the journey I embraced for my research—creation project on collaborative experimental lutherie. While pursuing my Master’s degree in Sonic Arts, I found myself deeply interested in the character and presence of the wind I was constantly stumbling upon in Belfast, Northern Ireland. By adopting the cosmoplitics approach proposed by Isabelle Stengers, read through the framework of the contemporary arts, I will evaluate the feasibility of presenting the sound making process as a collaborative platform where human and non-human actors are allowed to interact. While wondering how to establish sonic exchange mechanisms with the wind, I rediscovered the local kiting folk practices and began to study the kite using conceptual tools brought form the German media theory, particularly the work pioneered by Friedrich Kittler. It is a physical fact that the kite could not fly if either Wind or Human were missing; therefore, in that sense, I will argue that kite flying can be presented as Kulturtechnik whenever both actors find themselves affected by the result of the collaborative action. Going a step further, I will explore Kite crafting in terms of experimental lutherie as a process in which the final “instrument” is indeed the result of wind-human sound interaction.