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    sonoscopic morphologies

    Disziplin Transdisziplinarität

    sonoscopic morphologies, Livia Zumofen, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste

    Sonoscopic morphologies is a transdisciplinary engagement with the subtle, the microscopic and the complex. The work navigates the spaces between sound art and materials science, in (re)search for new perspectives. As materials scientist and musician (guitarist/composer), my starting point was two specialized practices in disciplines that might not seem closely related. Where my scientific background trained me in systematically setting up experiments, examining material properties and working with the gathered data as material, my sonic practice allows to engage sound as a relational possibility: The poetry of sounds – either through playing the guitar or listening to, recording in and composing of soundscapes of various environments – open aesthetic dimensions and ways to articulate them. Microscopy is an analytical method that is widely used to characterize structures and topologies in various fields of research. The microscope was, and still is, a crucial instrument in my work as materials scientist. The many hours I have spent with microscopes and the practice of microscopy have shaped the way I see, relate to and think about materials. Within this work the potentials of the method of microscopy and its transferability into the fields of (sound) art and music are investigated. In one perspective shift, I engage with methods of materials characterization using sonic practices, such as listening through materials using contact microphones, amplification, recording, sound processing and creating soundscapes with the recorded materials. In a further perspective shift I explore instruments from my sonic practices with methods from the materials sciences, such as metallographic cross sectioning and various technologies of microscopy. Therefore, the method engages an artisticscientific approach to explore sound through microscopy and microscopy through sound. These two perspective shifts allow to explore areas „inbetween“ art and science to convey the complexity and ambivalence of a practice situated „not solely“ within (sound) art or (materials) science. Therefore, microscopy is not only part of the topic to be investigated, but also the central method applied within the work.

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    • Discipline

      Transdiziplinarität

    • Field of Study

      Disziplin Transdisziplinarität

    • Authors

      Livia Zumofen

    • Date

      01.06.2025

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