Sounds, Memories and Affects: Double Capture in a Relational Artistic Experience

Valéria Bonafé; Rogério  Costa

doi:10.25038/am.v0i23.394

Authors

Valéria Bonafé
Rogério Costa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i23.394

Keywords:

collaborative creative processes, composition, improvisation, double capture, memory, affect, loop

Abstract

This article presents and discusses the nos{entre}nós project, which stems from an artistic collaboration between the authors, composer Valéria Bonafé and improviser and saxophonist Rogério Costa. The project is nurtured by the differences between both artists and proposes a particular manner of assemblage (agencement) set on privileging a consistent collaborative practice. The philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and Brian Massumi is used to analyze this relational practice, with special attention given to concepts like zone of indiscernibility, disjunctive synthesis and double capture. The article also deals specifically with the creative processes involved in producing the first artistic work of this collaborative project, Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte. At stake is the memory space appearing as a field of sensible experience, capable of triggering the surging of affects and the energies necessary for creative assemblages, and where the loop appears as an important strategy of transduction between the poetic field and musical realization.

Article received: April 20, 2020; Article accepted: May 30, 2020; Published online: October 15, 2020; Original scholarly paper

Author Biographies

Valéria Bonafé

NuSom – Research Center on Sonology, University of São Paulo,
Brazil

Valéria Bonafé (1984), composer and researcher. She studied at the University of São Paulo and at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. Her music has been performed in concerts and festivals in several countries: Brazil, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, and the USA. As a researcher, she works mainly in the following fields: creative processes, musical composition, musical analysis, sound studies, and feminisms. Her more recent research and creative work deals with sonority and sound image, memory and affect, orality and listening, sound poetics, sound autobiography, and sound cartography. Currently, she is developing a post-doctorate research-creation at NuSom – Research Center on Sonology at the University of São Paulo.

Rogério Costa

http://www.rogeriocosta.mus.br

Music Department, University of São Paulo,
Brazil

Rogério Costa (1959), Professor, researcher, and performer. He is an Associate Professor at the Music Department of the University of São Paulo and one of the coordinators of NuSom – Research Center on Sonology at the same institution. His main topic of research is music improvisation and its connections with other areas of studies such as philosophy, technology, music education, creative processes, and sound studies. In 2010 he founded Orquestra Errante (OE), a group dedicated to the practice and research about free improvisation. OE works in a democratic and non-hierarchical way, and strongly emphasizes the idea of creating music collectively in real-time. In this group, besides being the coordinator, he acts as an improviser at the saxophone. He is author of the book Música Errante: o jogo da improvisação livre [Errant Music: the game of free improvisation] (Ed. Perspectiva, 2016).

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i23.394 DOI: https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i23.394