Hackpact👾

It is just a toy .. phew

Scattered thoughts, desires and gestures that need to be united (a bit)
Parallel experiments, that occupy my soul 🎃
This hackpackt started from the beginning of the trimester and consits of tryouts related to the graduation project

Reading and annotating Situated knowledges by Donna Harraway

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/situated_knowledges

Gathering my annotations

Who has a body?
We don't want to represent the world. We don't want one body
Universality is reductionism
Prosthesis and not objectivity
All vision has an embodied nature
The body is an agent not a resource
How to see from below?
Vision requires instruments of vision
Who can and who cannot?
How to see?
Where to see from?
What limits to vision?
What to see for?
What other sensory powers do we wish to cultivate besides vision?
Location is about vulnerability
Situated knowledges are about communities and not about individuals
Sex as an object of biological knowledge
Homogenising all the world's body into resource 👎🏼
Nature is only the raw material of culture 👎🏼
Situated knowledges require that the object of knowledge is an actor or agent
Conversation vs discovery
Bodies as objects of knowledge are material-semiotic, generative nodes

Keywords

subjugated knowledges
location
embodiment
partial perspective
politics of vision
fantastic imaginings
local knowledges

Freesound Library and research with keywords

body https://freesound.org/search/?q=body&page=8#sound
machine https://freesound.org/search/?g=1&f=&q=machine&s=Automatic+by+relevance&w=&advanced=0&page=1#sound
prosthesis https://freesound.org/search/?q=prosthesis
cyber https://freesound.org/search/?q=cyber
cyborg https://freesound.org/search/?q=cyborg&f=&w=&s=Automatic+by+relevance&advanced=0&g=1
robot https://freesound.org/search/?q=robot&f=&w=&s=Automatic+by+relevance&advanced=0&g=1
organ https://freesound.org/search/?q=organ&f=&w=&s=Automatic+by+relevance&advanced=0&g=1
gender https://freesound.org/search/?q=gender&f=&w=&s=Automatic+by+relevance&advanced=0&g=1
sex https://freesound.org/search/?q=sex&f=&w=&s=Automatic+by+relevance&advanced=0&g=1
natural https://freesound.org/search/?q=natural&page=1#sound
artificial https://freesound.org/search/?q=artificial&f=&w=&s=Automatic+by+relevance&advanced=0&g=1
animal https://freesound.org/search/?q=animal&page=1#sound
human https://freesound.org/search/?q=human&f=&w=&s=Automatic+by+relevance&advanced=0&g=1
non-human https://freesound.org/search/?q=non-human&f=&w=&s=Automatic+by+relevance&advanced=0&g=1
woman https://freesound.org/search/?q=woman&f=&w=&s=Automatic+by+relevance&advanced=0&g=1
indigenous https://freesound.org/search/?g=1&f=&q=indigenous&s=Automatic+by+relevance&w=&advanced=0&page=1#sound
non-binary https://freesound.org/search/?q=non-binary&f=&w=&s=Automatic+by+relevance&advanced=0&g=1
trans https://freesound.org/search/?g=1&f=&q=trans&s=Automatic+by+relevance&w=&advanced=0&page=1#sound

Approaching the diffractive instrument

I started making this pad on the special issue 18, trying to approach how to make an instrument that edits sounds diffractively ( i am stil in search of what this could mean)
pad
Diffractive djing
video from last year diffractive djing of the SI18
https://media.xpub.nl/2022/gradshow/WalkieTalkie-XPUB1.mp4?fbclid=IwAR18OjRoXJo5zrMCCWqu0XR_vFFO8dl0lCViy3-K1KWAAuat3ggLgZo_iNo
listening to the dj set pad
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/diffractive_session_worm

Common research with al nik

Pure data tutorial

Starting tutorial for learning pure data
The goal is to creat a mixing instrument
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/alnik-xpub2-research-puredata

Sound jam research

the wiki page
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Sound_jams_research
pad for jam brainstorming
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/alnik-xpub2-jams
pad for sharing references https://pad.xpub.nl/p/al_mits_references

Facilitating the jam at M&Ms

Process log
1_ brainstorming and brainwriting about ways to facilitate a jamming session
2_ re-assessing why we want to use the format of a jam
3_ selecting a jam facilitation for M&Ms
4_ writing down the programme of the whole session + what we want to get from it
5_ inviting the group to bring instruments (telling them in advance)
6_ going through different reads and discussing what we want to reflect on during the jam
7_ choosing the book; choosing extracts from it to read during the session; editing
8_ prepare the instruments for the session
9_ prepare the space

The working pad
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/mitsal-xpub2-research-mms

Jamming after reading the Deep Listening text

Mitsa reading the text Athens Teen Spirit from the book An appartment on Uranus by Paul B. Preciado
https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~mitsa/XPUB2/jam%20with%20alex%200.0/mitsa-reading.mp3

Jamming
https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~mitsa/XPUB2/jam%20with%20alex%200.0/jam_alex_mitsa_08.10.mp3

Dj impro mixing/disrupting uneven patters with running up that hill
https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~mitsa/XPUB2/jam%20with%20alex%200.0/impro.mp3
and reverse
https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~mitsa/XPUB2/jam%20with%20alex%200.0/impro-back.mp3
and both together
https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~mitsa/XPUB2/jam%20with%20alex%200.0/dj%20impro_mixed.mp3

Process So Far

Sound Editing and Manipulation

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/on_editing

Editing methodologies

Pitching as detuning as animacy transformation

samples used from the https://freesound.org

trans breathing

For this audio file, I used as sample the 360424__topschool__abandonedfacilitybreathing audio from freesound library. https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~mitsa/XPUB2/pitch%20experiments/breath_transformation.mp3

trans crying

For this audio file, I used as sample the 219433__bash360__crying audio from the freesound library.
https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~mitsa/XPUB2/pitch%20experiments/crying_transformation.mp3

breathing entities layering

using as samples sounds from freesound libraries and my own breath, the idea is to decategorise animacies through breaths. It consits of "pig", "horse", "dog" "machine", "female","male" breaths.
https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~mitsa/XPUB2/pitch%20experiments/breaths%20entities.mp3

detuned guitar layered with breathing entities

https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~mitsa/XPUB2/pitch%20experiments/c%20trabreatg.mp3

Breathing randomly stretched and looped

For this audio file I used as sample the file 21000_jason130178_man-breathing from the freesound library https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~mitsa/XPUB2/pitch%20experiments/breath%20random%20stretched%20loop.mp3

Trying out Sonic Pi for sound editing and mixing

First impressions.
Easy to follow.
There are potentials on changing pitch and rhythm , i need to see how deep i can go with sound modulation,
with what instruments, mic, midi, i can plug it in.
I can easily plug in samples, and that is really useful for my project.

Recording and Sampling Sources Outline and Brainstorming

pad

On auto-ethnography

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/on_auto-ethnography