Sonidos, alquimia y devenir

Abstract

What prompted this research/creation had to do with incorporating the different musical practices I have experienced in my life and also motivated the formulation of this research/creation into this doctoral program: Sounds, alchemy, and becoming. This research/creation work channels my experience into a series of creative acts that contribute to the decolonization of sounds from a micro-political perspective that is linked to feelings and affections in order to encourage listening to what has not been heard and to make the inaudible audible. To carry out this purpose, the goal of this work consisted of creating a sonorous event that would combine the oriental practices of the alchemy of sound with the regional music related to the water cultures of the Caribbean and the Colombian Pacific along with the experimental eco-acoustic soundscape of the Bogota River.This thesis gathers the sonoesthesis as a conceptual and creative contribution that, as a decolonizing sound practice, supports other ways of relating to the sound and live music of our environment and thus generate a different way to name the practices of sound/vital/energetic. Key words: decolonization, alchemy, water route, water music, Colombian regional music, sound minga, sonoesthesis.