Hugo Esquinca’s live multichannel intervention On ‘A Psychedelic Becoming’ at Sonic Acts Academy 2020 confronts recursion and its openness to the necessity of contingency. The work follows that of his collaborator, philosopher Yuk Hui, who outlines these notions in his book Recursivity and Contingency (2019). The compositional framework involves modal amplification, spatial distribution and processual (dis)organisation. Yuk Hui reflects on their resonant consequences and emerging relations as part of the intervention.
Hugo Esquinca, On 'A Psychedelic Becoming' at Sonic Acts Academy 2020. Photo by Pieter Kers.
Hugo Esquinca, On 'A Psychedelic Becoming' at Sonic Acts Academy 2020. Photo by Pieter Kers.
Commissioned by Sonic Acts as part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
Sound artist
Hugo Esquinca’s research as intervention/intervention as research in sound explores different degrees of exposure to thresholds of indeterminacy, spectral de-gradation, erratic processing techniques and excessive levels of amplification.
https://www.dekj.org
Yuk Hui studied Computer Engineering and Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong and Goldsmiths, Univerisity of London, with a focus on philosophy of technology. He currently teaches at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. He is initiator of the Research Network for Philosophy and Technology, an international network which facilitates researches and collaborations on philosophy and technology.
http://www.digitalmilieu.net/yuk/
Presentations
Sonic Acts Academy 2020
23 February 2020
De Brakke Grond
www.sonicacts.com
Touch Me Festival
21 September 2020
Zagreb, Croatia
www.kontejner.org
