TRANSEUNTIS MUNDI A NOMADIC ARTISTIC PRACTICE

C Ndida Luiza Borges Da Silva

A thesis submitted to the University of Plymouth in partial fulfilment for the degree of

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Interdisciplinary Center for Computer Music Research

School of Society and Culture

In collaboration with the School of Arts of University of Antioquia

2018 - 2022

Acknowledgements

To the University of Plymouth, Doctoral College, to my advisors Dr. Eduardo Miranda, Dr. Andy Prior, Dr. Sana Murrani. To Dr. Gabriel Mario Vélez, guest advisor from the University of Antioquia.

To the School of Arts of the University of Antioquia

To Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro UNIRIO, Villa Lobos Institute, Department of Composition.

To Columbia University, Department of Music/ Computer Music Center, Dr. Brad Garton, Dr. Seth Cluett and Dr. Ana Maria Ochoa.

To my former advisors Dr. John Matthias and Dr. Anya Lewin.

To sponsors and supporters Zoom US, Music Not Impossible Project, Stratos Fiflis.

To Esteban Henao, research assistant. To my production team: Lívia Borges, David Romero.

To my partner and unconditional supporter

To my family of origin - my beloved parents Talma Borges Silva and Waldemar Pereira da Silva, my siblings Lilian, Lívia, Fausto, Flávio, Fábio and all the family formed from them. To my extended family Borges and Pereira da Silva, and each one of them.

To my references and admired artists: Mrs. Meredith Monk, the musicians from Bahia (especially Letieres Leite, Mateus Aleluia, Carlinhos Brown, and Bira Marques), Egberto Gismonti. To all my previous teachers, especially Dr. Miriam Grosman, Marco Pereira and Cely Periard.

To my friends and supporters: Denise Telles, Rodrigo Henao & Musux group, Rodolfo Caesar, Carlos Almada, Martha Ulhoa, Richard Abraham; the Transart Institute and members, especially Alison Geremia, Luiza Greenfield, Veronica Fazzio, Raul Barcelona; IBOC in the names of João Mac Dowell and Athena Azevedo; Carrie Shumway, Peter Sciscioli, Marlice Rocha, Bernardo Reis, Max Wild, Bob Gaulke, Heloísa Aguiar, Volker Goetze, Gizella Bourlier, Marcelo Allthoff, and so many more named and unnamed here.

To Bahia, to Rio de Janeiro, to New York. To Barbosa and Medellín.

To my ancestors and to all ancestors. Especially to all the women that came before me.

Dedicated to my partner of all times, dimensions, and realities

No hay un solo hombre que no sea un descubridor. Empieza descubriendo lo amargo, lo salado, lo cóncavo, lo liso, lo áspero, los siete colores del arco y las veintitantas letras del alfabeto; pasa por los rostros, los mapas, los animales y los astros; concluye por la duda o por la fe y por la certidumbre casi total de su propia ignorancia. (Borges and Kodama 1984)

[There is not a single man who is not a discoverer. It begins by discovering the bitter, the salty, the concave, the smooth, the rough, the seven colors of the arc and the twenty-odd letters of the alphabet; it passes by the faces, the maps, the animals and the stars; he concludes by doubt or by faith and by the almost total certainty of his own ignorance.] [Free translation by the author]