It is just a toy .. phew

Scattered thoughts, desires and gestures that need to be united (a bit)
Parallel experiments, that occupy my soul 🎃

Reading and annotating Situated knowledges by Donna Harraway

pad
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

Approaching the diffractive instrument

1. 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

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

Editing sound

The different steps for sound editing
1. Define the archive of sound

 a. Import recorded sounds I have made the past months, to create an archive. Try to categorise them with different 
 logics
 b. Try to edit already existing archive of sounds . example freseound.org library

2. Editing methodologies
Pitching as detuning as animacy transformation
https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~mitsa/XPUB2/pitch%20experiments/breath_transformation.mp3 https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~mitsa/XPUB2/pitch%20experiments/crying_transformation.mp3

breathing -->
using freesound libraries and me , the idea is to decategorise animacies through breaths (there are "pig", "horse", "dog" "machine","female","male" breathing)

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

Hackpact👾

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