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Radical Creative Semantic Anchoring: Creative-action metaphors and timbral interaction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2022

Ivan Simurra ,
Marcello Messina Open the ORCID record for Marcello Messina [Opens in a new window] ,
Luzilei Aliel  and
Damián Keller
Ivan Simurra*
Affiliation:
Amazon Center for Music Research (NAP), Rio Branco, Brazil. Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC), Rio Branco, Brazil.
Marcello Messina*
Affiliation:
Amazon Center for Music Research (NAP), Rio Branco, Brazil. Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC), Rio Branco, Brazil. Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), João Pessoa, Brazil.
Luzilei Aliel*
Affiliation:
Amazon Center for Music Research (NAP), Rio Branco, Brazil. Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil.
Damián Keller*
Affiliation:
Amazon Center for Music Research (NAP), Rio Branco, Brazil. Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC), Rio Branco, Brazil. Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), João Pessoa, Brazil.
*
Email: ivan.simurra@ufac.br
Email: marcello@ccta.ufpb.br
Email: luzaliel@usp.br
Email: dkeller@ccrma.stanford.edu
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Abstract

This paper explores participatory and socially engaged practices in ubiquitous music (ubimus). We discuss recent advances that target timbre as their focus while incorporating semantic strategies for knowledge transfer among participants. Creative Semantic Anchoring (ASC from the original in Portuguese) is a creative-action metaphor that shows promising preliminary results in collaborative asynchronous activities. Given its grounding in local resources and its support for explicit knowledge, ASC features a good potential to boost socially distributed knowledge. We discuss three strategies that consolidate and expand this approach within ubiquitous music and propose the label Radical ASC. We investigate the implications of this framework through the analysis of two artistic projects: Atravessamentos and Ntrallazzu.

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Organised Sound , Volume 28 , Issue 1: Socially Engaged Sound Practices, Part 2 , April 2023 , pp. 64 - 77
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