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Given name: Iracema









Surname: De Andrade Almeida









Email: cenidim.ideandrade@inba.edu.mx









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Title: Endangered Sonic Bodies: Situated Knowledge in Performer-Led Intermedial Electroacoustic Practice









Format: Project presentation (2)









Main language: English









Abstract:
This presentation examines how performer-led intermedial electroacoustic practice constitutes a form of situated knowledge production, proposing the "female sonic body" as an endangered conceptual world within Western concert music. Historically shaped by colonial, patriarchal, and score-centred epistemologies, the performer’s body—particularly when gendered—has been disciplined and rendered epistemically neutral. In response, this project develops the "female sonic body" as an analytical, critical, and methodological framework through which embodied, culturally inscribed, and minoritised sonic practices emerge as epistemic resources. Drawing on four audiovisual electroacoustic works created within the Féminas Sonoras collective, the presentation demonstrates how experimental artistic practices—including intermedial composition, improvisation, archival activation, and collaborative creation—function as modes of embodied analysis. Family archives, vernacular sonic memories, and genealogically transmitted imaginaries operate as cultural sedimentations that persist across generations, resurfacing through performance as forms of artistic and epistemic agency. These practices resist processes of standardisation and epistemic homogenisation by affirming situated, irreducible modes of knowing rooted in lived experience. By integrating artistic practice and critical reflection, the project proposes a transferable experimental methodology for artistic research, demonstrating how intermedial performance can generate new epistemic frameworks and sustain endangered conceptual worlds within contemporary artistic practice.











Link to the Exposition :  (https://www.researchcatalogue.net/editor?research=4194540&weave=4194539)









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Short biographies of the presenter(s):
- Iracema de Andrade holds a Ph.D. in Music (Cum Laude) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she was awarded the “Alfonso Caso” Academic Merit Medal for her doctoral research on cello repertoires and new technologies. In England, she earned a Master’s degree from West London University, along with a Fellowship Diploma and a Certificate of Advanced Studies from the London College of Music. She serves as an Associate Researcher at the “Carlos Chávez” National Center for Music Research. She is also the recipient of the 2024 First Prize for Academic Performance in Research and a member of the National System of Art Creators, both under the Mexican Ministry of Culture. www.iracemadeandrade.com
  










Previous presentations or iterations of the research:
Earlier versions of this research were presented at Electroacoustic Music Studies Conference in Paris 2025, and published in Vórtex Music Journal, Vol. 14, 2026. The IFAR 2026 contribution expands this work by refining the methodological articulation of the “female sonic body” as a transferable artistic research framework, and explicitly addressing intermedial performance as a strategy for sustaining endangered conceptual worlds, including its live and practice-based dimensions.















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Spatial and technical requirements :
Projector
Stereo sound system
Laptop connection (HDMI or mini-jack)










Potential risks or ethical concerns:
All audiovisual materials presented were created within collaborative artistic research contexts with full consent of participants. The presentation reflects critically on ethical approaches to collaborative knowledge production, ensuring that artistic and cultural materials are contextualised and not treated as extractable resources.











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