Towards a response-able electroacoustic composition practice: in search of sympoietic multivalence

Abstract

This paper proposes a relational model for electroacoustic composition practice. In the model, relationality focuses on perspectives of responseability of the composer with more-than-human agents, within an entangled sympoietic musical space. Here, the response-practices are built on acts of listening that entail, aural analysis and embodied practice with material objects. Within the scope of this paper, morethan-human agents are narrowed down to only recorded sounds (fixed media sound files) and physical material objects. In investigating such response-able compositional practices, the model follows Post-humanist and New-materialist strands focusing on various concepts proposed by Karen Barad and Donna Haraway. And in doing so, it aims to re-figure some of the conventional discourses about the concepts of poietic agency, and of multivalence within the composition practice. © 2017-2021, Trabzon University State Conservatory. All rights reserved.