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X-WR-CALNAME:ATMOSPHERES: A performance with Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
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DESCRIPTION:Atomspheres is a series of performances on elemental listening 
 engagement and meditative environmental attunement\, leading to a particip
 atory performance with the co-listeners. The performances attune to the ma
 cro-scale crises of the climate and ecology in a planetary context and bri
 dges its intersection with micro-level coping strategies to the crises in 
 a regenerative gathering. The performances resonate with the tradition of 
 free improvisation as well as communal and participatory sonic gatherings 
 for affective and discursive engagement with crises and conflict\, practic
 ed in many Global Souths cultures. These performance gatherings involve fi
 eld recordings of climate variables like wind\, water\, and woods\, compro
 vised by chance generative processes\, accompanied by radio interferences 
 transducing situated weather patterns\, weaved together by meditative inst
 rumental interventions of traditional instruments\, as well as live electr
 onics and algorithmic interpretation of data and assemblages embracing fre
 e improvisational techniques and ethos. As an invocation\, the series invi
 tes the co-listeners into an exercise of slow listening and slow breathing
  that try to suspend time\, control\, ego\, and individuality to tap into 
 a humbler mode of fatalism and a distributed self-hood. This philosophical
  positioning stresses the subjugation of events or actions to fate or dest
 iny and is commonly associated with an attitude of acceptance in the face 
 of future events\, which are thought to be inevitable. This approach manif
 ests into yielding control by an emergent form of togetherness\, intersubj
 ectivity\, and kinship when listening transcends an overt causality\, and 
 the psychosomatic condition embraces slow breathing to contemplate\, and a
 ffective attunement. The project is inspired by the micro-level entangleme
 nts of human\, more-than-human\, and other life forms in a survival contex
 t\, and explores sensory transduction of environmental conditions to figur
 e how to make them post-immersive and attuning experiences in an openly ci
 rcular\, collaborative performance setting.
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LOCATION:School of Cinematic Arts - SCA (SCA)\, 120A
SUMMARY:ATMOSPHERES: A performance with Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.usc.edu/event/atmospheres-a-performance-with
 -budhaditya-chattopadhyay
CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop
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