BioMusic

My practice-led perspective on biofeedback and music.

Designing and performing with wearable electronics that measure biological data come with challenges that include and are not limited to: implications of hearing and sharing biological signals on the performer and listeners, how to approach interface design in a historically and socially informed way, capitalization of health data collection and what to do with that data, a history of violence that medical devices have on marginalized bodies, and the erasure of marginalized historical figures and gendered feminine labor that often happens in the quest for novelty and high impact research in technoscience.

Feminist Science and Technology theorists have proposed alternative epistemological frameworks and methods for challenging the ‘all seeing vision’ historically celebrated in techno-mediated practices. They call for a partial perspective as ethics and politics that not only opens a way to think about embodiment but asks that we think about embodiment in and as situated knowledge. However, while many of these theorists advocate multisensorial methods for suggesting a more capacious understanding of embodiment and knowledge, they often prioritize an ocular-centric approach. This set of pieces addresses conversations that have been happening in the discourse of Feminist Science and Technology Studies through the medium of sound.