What happens when we borrow sounds from other musicians? How can such a transgression of seemingly personal territories contribute to an expanded understanding of our sonic identity and musical imagination? And could this b/lend of sonic identities perhaps point to a more ambiguous yet dynamic and vibrant state of the ‘subjects’ in intra-action?

Taking off from these questions, Traversing Sonic Territories intends to challenge our idea of ‘a personal sound’, which is a widespread conception within especially acoustic improvised music, consequently investigating how a radicalized sharing of these ‘personal sounds’ through contemporary sampling technology can contribute to an expansion of improvisational and imaginal horizons. Individual idiomatic approaches to one’s own instrument are thus provoked and questioned as we transgress the habitual boundaries for action possibilities and musical imagination. And yet, as we touch on these boundaries, we are quickl...

What happens when we borrow sounds from other musicians? How can such a transgression of seemingly personal territories contribute to an expanded understanding of our sonic identity and musical imagination? And could this b/lend of sonic identities perhaps point to a more ambiguous yet dynamic and vibrant state of the ‘subjects’ in intra-action?

Taking off from these questions, Traversing Sonic Territories intends to challenge our idea of ‘a personal sound’, which is a widespread conception within especially acoustic improvised music, consequently investigating how a radicalized sharing of these ‘personal sounds’ through contemporary sampling technology can contribute to an expansion of improvisational and imaginal horizons. Individual idiomatic approaches to one’s own instrument are thus provoked and questioned as we transgress the habitual boundaries for action possibilities and musical imagination. And yet, as we touch on these boundaries, we are quickly challenged by the liminalities of our own musical identity, including our physical disposition, instrumental in/capacities, mimetic patterning, aesthetic preferences and other un/conscious biases. So how do we embark with ethical care while still throwing ourselves into the risks of sharing and playing across this complexity of borders in search of fruitful disorders? And how do we develop a critical and imaginal listening that enables us to hear through the cracks and breaches in order to see the potentials beyond?...

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