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From Boethian Harmony to a Dry Riverbed: El sonido recobrado

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2024

Graciela Muñoz Farida Open the ORCID record for Graciela Muñoz Farida [Opens in a new window]
Graciela Muñoz Farida*
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Institute of Music, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
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Email: graciela.munoz.f@pucv.cl
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Abstract

The article takes Boethius’s theory of musical harmony as a starting point, in particular studying the collective dimension embedded in this concept. The dynamics of contact and interdetermination, between humans and other-than-human, are explored and understood as factors co-involved in the possibility of common living. The role of the notions of ecology and economy in rereading the concept of harmony provided by Boethius’s theory is also reviewed. The text then explores a site-specific work that experiments with these issues through the creation of an acousmatic patch that is superimposed onto a broken ecology, showing how this serves as an agent for a reharmonisation of a drought-ravaged river. The article concludes by addressing the implications that a territorially situated musical approach might represent for recovery of the broken link between humans and the other-than-human.

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Organised Sound , Volume 29 , Issue 3: More-Than-Human, More-Than-Music , December 2024 , pp. 245 - 253
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press

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