Crossing borders: artistic-musical hybridizations, from electronics to biotechnology

Abstract

Technologies have been fundamental in the evolution of the arts, allowing artists to appropriate theories, methods and procedures of science to make them part of their discourse; that is, in symbolic content that acquires significance values. Its use in the field of music is relevant because, without a doubt, it is where its use in the creation of new sounds, textures and timbres is most evident. Also, it has given rise to innovative ways of composing, taking as a starting point from computer algorithms and artificial intelligence to the use of biotechnological elements in which the properties of certain types of bacteria or other microorganisms are used. There are some studies and literature on sound art, but, in general, the relationship between these disciplines and their hybridizations has been little or insufficiently addressed. In this study, an analysis was made of contemporary hybrid works of art that use digital, computer, electronic or biological technologies as part of their poetics, producing border crossings between sound, visual and musical fields. The objective of this research is to understand the impact of current technologies on artistic production; in addition, the way in which these proposals transfigure technological media into symbolic content as part of their discourse.