Musical mutations in deep time
Abstract
This article studies the question of counter-canon and ecology by describing the research-based curatorial work of Ultranesia, focusing on some artists participating in the Archipelago Festival, which took place in Madrid between 2017 and 2023. The text follows an interdisciplinary approach that could be framed in the field of sound studies. It discusses several recent publications dedicated to examining Western musical hegemony from media studies, ecology and decolonial thinking. The methodology is qualitative, guided by a deep-time materialist approach. The notion of Experimentalism is considered a kind of Western canon to which alternatives are explored. These may be found on one hand in musicians who embrace tradition in their practice, but on the other hand, in contemporary artists whose work has been wrongly labelled as world music and folklore for not fitting within the Western definition of traditional music.
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