On October 21, Daniel Marabolí, CMUS thesis student, defended his thesis for the Master’s in Research for Artistic Creation at Universidad Mayor, titled SONOTURGIA. Situated listening, recording, archive, re-listening, and sound and performative composition from the street market at the corner of Diez de Julio and Vicuña Mackenna. The work was supervised by Dr. Christian Spencer, director of the Millennium Nucleus.

“The work investigates how the situated listening of the street market at Diez de Julio and Vicuña Mackenna can be transformed, through listening, recording, archive and re-listening, into sound composition and into a staging-performative device,” says Marabolí. “It proposes generative sonoturgy, a methodology in which sound produces the scene, and the concept of sonic thickness, which names the difference between what the body hears and what the recording preserves.”

Here are some photos of his fieldwork: