Este trabalho tem como objetivo principal posicionar o conceito de desenho de escuta. Para tal, articula-se uma composição teórica situada na convergência entre estudos do som, etnografia de mídias, pesquisa em criação artística, e filosofias críticas da representação. Neste início de século XXI, a escuta é empregada explicitamente como um bem material e imaterial distribuído entre mercantilização de audiências, pesquisa em arte e debate ético. Para situar a noção de desenho de escuta como um operador conceitual que responde a este contexto, o trabalho divide-se em duas grandes partes: a primeira parte posiciona o problema geral da tese mediante a descrição de dispositivos de poder que formam políticas majoritárias da auralidade; a segunda parte desdobra o conceito de desenho de escuta como um operador e um designador de variações do agenciamento aural. Na primeira parte, descreve-se uma variedade de situações materiais de consumo de áudio no contexto do complexo militar-entretenimento, particularmente no ambiente de consumo fonográfico online. Neste contexto, analisa-se um dispositivo paradigmático de racionalização instrumental da escuta, e apresenta-se a necessidade teórica de se pensar uma áudio virologia. Na segunda parte, aprecia-se uma transformação epistêmica em curso no âmbito da pesquisa em música no Brasil; e descreve-se a noção de otografia, núcleo conceitual da produção artística que desenvolvi ao longo desta pesquisa de doutorado. A metodologia analítica permite constatar, na primeira parte, a transição de um regime de regulação moral da escuta musical baseado na disciplina para um regime baseado no controle; Na segunda parte, o assunto principal é uma diversidade de pesquisas artísticas que ativam o particular e o local como dimensões a serem recontextualizadas no âmbito da pesquisa em arte. O pressuposto básico desta tese é o de que a escuta é uma prática a ser pensada primordialmente em termos de agenciamento de desejo. Tal pressuposto conduz o trabalho a eleger a esquizoanálise como o seu principal aliado teórico, o que lhe permite esquivar-se de uma série de binarismos usualmente pressupostos pela discursividade acadêmica, tais como natureza e cultura, local e global, musical e extramusical. O desenho de escuta é necessariamente uma prática e um conceito: uma prática de consolidação de territórios existenciais específicos em função dos meios materiais agenciados; e um operador de linguagem, mediante o qual se pode elaborar um saber enunciado a partir do corpo, de ações particularmente significativas, de devires. / This thesis aims to position the concept of listening design. For this, it articulates a theoretical composition situated in the convergence between sound studies, media ethnography, practice-based research, and philosophies critical to representation. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, listening is explicitly used as a material and immaterial good distributed among audience commoditification, art and ethical debate. In order to situate the notion of listening design as a conceptual operator responding to this context, this work is divided into two main parts: the first part poses the general problem of the thesis by describing a set of power apparatuses that form majoritary policies of aurality; the second part unfolds the concept of listening design as both an operator and designator for practices transforming aural assemblages. In the first part, I describe a variety of material situations of audio consumption in the context of the military-entertainment complex, mainly the environment of online audio consumption. In this context, I analyze a paradigmatic apparatus for instrumental rationalization of the listening activity, and I assess the theoretical need to think in terms of an audio virology. In the second part, I discuss an ongoing epistemic transformation in the field of music research in Brazil; followed by a description of notion of otography, which is the conceptual nucleus of the artistic production that I developed throughout this doctoral research. The analytical methodology carried out here allows us to verify, in the first part, the transition from an economic-political regime of musical listening based on the discipline to a regime of regulation based on control; In the second part, the focus is on instances of artistic research that activates the particular and the local as dimensions to be recontextualized in the scope of academic art research. The core of this thesis is based on the argument that listening is a practice to be thought primarily in terms of assemblage of desire. This presupposition leads the work to take schizoanalysis as its main theoretical ally, which allows it to dodge a series of binarisms usually presupposed by academic discursiveness, such as nature and culture, local and global, musical and extramusical. Listening design is necessarily a practice and a concept: a practice of consolidation of specific existential territories in function of assembled material media; and a language operator through which one can elaborate a particular knowledge enunciated from the body, from particularly meaningful actions, from becomings.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo principal posicionar o conceito de desenho de escuta. Para tal, articula-se uma composição teórica situada na convergência entre estudos do som, etnografia de mídias, pesquisa em criação artística, e filosofias críticas da representação. Neste início de século XXI, a escuta é empregada explicitamente como um bem material e imaterial distribuído entre mercantilização de audiências, pesquisa em arte e debate ético. Para situar a noção de desenho de escuta como um operador conceitual que responde a este contexto, o trabalho divide-se em duas grandes partes: a primeira parte posiciona o problema geral da tese mediante a descrição de dispositivos de poder que formam políticas majoritárias da auralidade; a segunda parte desdobra o conceito de desenho de escuta como um operador e um designador de variações do agenciamento aural. Na primeira parte, descreve-se uma variedade de situações materiais de consumo de áudio no contexto do complexo militar-entretenimento, particularmente no ambiente de consumo fonográfico online. Neste contexto, analisa-se um dispositivo paradigmático de racionalização instrumental da escuta, e apresenta-se a necessidade teórica de se pensar uma áudio virologia. Na segunda parte, aprecia-se uma transformação epistêmica em curso no âmbito da pesquisa em música no Brasil; e descreve-se a noção de otografia, núcleo conceitual da produção artística que desenvolvi ao longo desta pesquisa de doutorado. A metodologia analítica permite constatar, na primeira parte, a transição de um regime de regulação moral da escuta musical baseado na disciplina para um regime baseado no controle; Na segunda parte, o assunto principal é uma diversidade de pesquisas artísticas que ativam o particular e o local como dimensões a serem recontextualizadas no âmbito da pesquisa em arte. O pressuposto básico desta tese é o de que a escuta é uma prática a ser pensada primordialmente em termos de agenciamento de desejo. Tal pressuposto conduz o trabalho a eleger a esquizoanálise como o seu principal aliado teórico, o que lhe permite esquivar-se de uma série de binarismos usualmente pressupostos pela discursividade acadêmica, tais como natureza e cultura, local e global, musical e extramusical. O desenho de escuta é necessariamente uma prática e um conceito: uma prática de consolidação de territórios existenciais específicos em função dos meios materiais agenciados; e um operador de linguagem, mediante o qual se pode elaborar um saber enunciado a partir do corpo, de ações particularmente significativas, de devires. / This thesis aims to position the concept of listening design. For this, it articulates a theoretical composition situated in the convergence between sound studies, media ethnography, practice-based research, and philosophies critical to representation. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, listening is explicitly used as a material and immaterial good distributed among audience commoditification, art and ethical debate. In order to situate the notion of listening design as a conceptual operator responding to this context, this work is divided into two main parts: the first part poses the general problem of the thesis by describing a set of power apparatuses that form majoritary policies of aurality; the second part unfolds the concept of listening design as both an operator and designator for practices transforming aural assemblages. In the first part, I describe a variety of material situations of audio consumption in the context of the military-entertainment complex, mainly the environment of online audio consumption. In this context, I analyze a paradigmatic apparatus for instrumental rationalization of the listening activity, and I assess the theoretical need to think in terms of an audio virology. In the second part, I discuss an ongoing epistemic transformation in the field of music research in Brazil; followed by a description of notion of otography, which is the conceptual nucleus of the artistic production that I developed throughout this doctoral research. The analytical methodology carried out here allows us to verify, in the first part, the transition from an economic-political regime of musical listening based on the discipline to a regime of regulation based on control; In the second part, the focus is on instances of artistic research that activates the particular and the local as dimensions to be recontextualized in the scope of academic art research. The core of this thesis is based on the argument that listening is a practice to be thought primarily in terms of assemblage of desire. This presupposition leads the work to take schizoanalysis as its main theoretical ally, which allows it to dodge a series of binarisms usually presupposed by academic discursiveness, such as nature and culture, local and global, musical and extramusical. Listening design is necessarily a practice and a concept: a practice of consolidation of specific existential territories in function of assembled material media; and a language operator through which one can elaborate a particular knowledge enunciated from the body, from particularly meaningful actions, from becomings.

Magister Artium - MA / This thesis is an exploration and analysis of the ways in which we might use varying forms of Black thought, theory, and art to think Blackness anew. For this purpose I work with electronic music from Nigeria and Detroit between 1976 and 1993, as well as with works of science fiction by W.E.B. Du Bois, Samuel Delany, Ralph Ellison, and Octavia Butler. Through a conceptual framework provided by theorists such as Fred Moten and Kodwo Eshun and the philosophical work of Afrofuturists like Delany, Ellison, Butler, and Du Bois, I explore the outer limits of what is possible when doing away with a canon of philosophy that predetermines our thinking of Blackness. This exploration also takes me to the possible depths of what this disavowal of a canon might mean and how we work with sound, the aural, and the sonic in rethinking the figuring of Blackness. This thesis is also be woven together by the theory of the Black Radical Tradition – following Cedric Robinson and Fred Moten specifically. At the centre of this thesis, and radiating outwards, is the assertion that a set of texts developed for a University of the West – Occidental philosophy as I refer to it in the thesis – is wholly insufficient in attempting to become attuned to the possibilities of Blackness. The thesis, finally, is a critique of ethnomusicology and its necessity for a native object, as well as sound studies, which fails to conceptualise any semblance of Black noise.

Audio is an effective but often overlooked component of World Wide Web delivery. Of the nearly twenty billion web pages estimated to exist, statistically few use sound. Those few using sound often use it poorly and with hardly any regard to theoretical and rhetorical issues. This thesis is an examination of the uses of audio on the World Wide Web, specifically focusing on how that use could be informed by current and historical rhetorical theory. A theoretical methodology is applied to suggest the concepts and disciplines required to make online audio more meaningful and useful. The thesis argues for the connection between the Web and the modern orator, its embodiment, its place in sound reproduction technology, and awareness of the limitations placed on it by design and convention.

This dissertation considers the intersection of aurality and visuality in seventeenth-century New Spanish poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s (1648/1651-95) acoustico-poetic discourse. Prior scholarship has focused either on the author’s engagement with Western music theory and compositional practices or else the role of musical references in her works. This has resulted in the marginalization of Sor Juana’s engagement with sound through disciplines that are not strictly musical or poetic, including: acoustics, cognitive theory and visual art. I address these lacunae by considering such concepts as echo, reflection, Ear, Voice, musica poetica (links between music and rhetoric) and musical pathos within the poet’s canon. Throughout my readings, Athanasius Kircher’s encyclopedic musical treatises— Musurgia universalis (1650) and Phonurgia nova (1673), both of which circulated within New Spain during Sor Juana’s lifetime—stand out as important sources by which such ideas were transmitted. My approach sharpens extant scholarship on these topics and identifies two new influences within Sor Juana’s poetic world: Aristotelian theories of cognition and Kircher’s unique position on musica poetica. More generally, this dissertation engages emerging scholarship on Ear in the early modern world and thus responds to the critical limits of ocularcentrism.

Quel est le sens de ce geste, finalement assez étrange, qui consiste à vouloir (s') improviser en musique, jusqu'à vouloir se montrer improvisant ? C'est en résonnant de grand air que ses significations raisonnent, et qui s'abordent aussi en sabordant. Ici, le complexe d'identité dans son entier est bouleversé, comme mis à vif dans un amour du son délesté de musique : l'urgence s'éprouve au plus fin, sur la crête d'un temps prêt à tout moment à s'évaporer en une immédiateté aussi foncièrement nouvelle qu'ancestrale. Le spectacle d'improvisation apparaît dès lors comme une sorte de lieu de jonction entre la fête sacrée et l'intimité d'un art brut. À la rencontre de l'autre pourtant dénié, le rapport à soi de l'improvisateur en jeu retrouve sa mondanéité propre et son originalité souveraine. / Why does someone want to improvise (by) music, and even show himself improvising ? Meanings of improvisation appear by resounding to wild life, and need destruction to be sensed. Here, the overall identity is shattered, sublimed in a love for sound without music. Improviser feels the urge, when time is ready to disappear in a new and ancestral immediacy. In this way, improvisation's show is like a confluence of sacred celebration and naive art. At the encounter of the one yet denied, the improviser's self-appreciation finds its own worldhood and its sovereign originality.