Möbius devices. An inquiry on sound, soma and technologically mediated performance practices / Laura Colomban (2021)

Möbius Devices interrogates the tensions between somatic, sonic, and cyclical processes in a space of collaborative mediation with technological devices.

The research explores the potential dissolution of boundaries through amplified listening experiences, to cultivate interconnectivity, proximity and intimacy in a performative arena. Engaging with a somatic approach to voice through cyclical methodologies, this thesis illustrates the personal journey of a rigorous and disciplined practice of wondering, where the continuous questioning has been at the base and at the end of a self-generative process of creation.

The practice generated methodologies of amplified sensing, creative computational writing as collaborative process between humans and technological devices, creating a space for shared agency, as a medium for liveness, real-time composition, to foster the conditions for the uncensored self and the unconscious collective to develop and unfold.

As a Möbius strip, which has no end and no beginning, the research is still alive and generates questions as propellers for new beginnings.

Keywords: RSVP Cycle, performance practice as research, somatic practice, sound studies, synchronicity, inter-relationality, cyclical processes, amplified sensing, headphone listening, feedback loop, technological mediation.