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Meridiana: Lines Toward a Non-local Alchemy (last edited: 2023)

Søren Kjærgaard

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“Meridiana: Lines toward a non-local Alchemy” investigates the line as a sonic, textual and visual phenomenon. Taking off from the four literary voices: the Dutch philosopher Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677), the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and the Chinese Taoists Lü Yan (796 C.E.) and Sun Buer (1119–1182 C.E.), a multitude of meanings are interwoven in a rich network of musical, textual and graphic lines. The line as a basic concept is emphasized by the first word of the title, Meridiana (plural for meridian), which has terminological roots in both the East and the West. In Western terminology, it denotes one geographical line connecting the North and South Pole. In the East, originating from ancient China, meridians (经络) are energy pathways of the body (both human and non-human), which connect internal organs and a number of vital points in a neurological network. The meeting between these two interpretations of a "meridian", between the geo-physical and sub-physical, between East and West, are the cornerstones of the project, which intention is to weave together the various meanings and emphases of meridian, while at the same time unfolding an expanding an intersection of lines: sonic lines, textual lines, graphic lines.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsSound, text, graphical notation, poetry, composition, improvisation
date20/10/2019
last modified17/04/2023
statusin revision
share statuspublic
copyrightSøren Kjærgaard, Torben Ulrich
licenseAll rights reserved
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/712210/712212


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