For my thesis at the HKU master Music & Technology I did a research regarding intra-active composing. If you are interested in reading the whole research, please don’t hesitate to contact me directly (see contact me information) This intra-activity is, in a way, very simple and always already the case, as it is quite difficult to integrate as we are very much used to fixed concepts and clear boundaries. Intra-active is a term coming from Karen Barad. On the website Newmaterialsim.eu is given a small explanation: “Intra-action understands agency as not an inherent property of an individual or human to be exercised, but as a dynamism of forces in which all designated ‘things’ are constantly exchanging and diffracting, influencing and working inseparably. Intra-action also acknowledges the impossibility of an absolute separation or classically understood objectivity, in which an apparatus (a technology or medium used to measure a property) or a person using an apparatus are not considered to be part of the process that allows for specifically located ‘outcomes’ or measurement.” So intra-activity asks for an attitude where all should be taken into account. Unlike inter-action, where two already identified entities meet each other and influence each other, intra-action suggests that entities do not pre-exist their encounter as such but are formed by the encounter. This suggests also that the properties of entities, the effect and the practice of meeting (or apparatus) cannot be separated. So because of the encounter something comes into being. So this is actually what already happens in every meeting, in every process, and is therefore always already the case. Because inevitably, everything starts a new relationship with its surroundings. The consequence is infinite potentiality. Every person is already a very complex, talented ongoingness of thinking/feeling/doing and therefore extremely dynamic. When people meet, inevitably there is intra-activity going on. We are different after every encounter. In chapter 3 I will explain how intra-activity can inspire my creative processes and collaborations and my music.
If you are interested in reading the whole research, please don’t hesitate to contact me directly (see contact me information)
This intra-activity is, in a way, very simple and always already the case, as it is quite difficult to integrate as we are very much used to fixed concepts and clear boundaries. Intra-active is a term coming from Karen Barad. On the website Newmaterialsim.eu is given a small explanation:
“Intra-action understands agency as not an inherent property of an individual or human to be exercised, but as a dynamism of forces in which all designated ‘things’ are constantly exchanging and diffracting, influencing and working inseparably. Intra-action also acknowledges the impossibility of an absolute separation or classically understood objectivity, in which an apparatus (a technology or medium used to measure a property) or a person using an apparatus are not considered to be part of the process that allows for specifically located ‘outcomes’ or measurement.”
So intra-activity asks for an attitude where all should be taken into account. Unlike inter-action, where two already identified entities meet each other and influence each other, intra-action suggests that entities do not pre-exist their encounter as such but are formed by the encounter. This suggests also that the properties of entities, the effect and the practice of meeting (or apparatus) cannot be separated. So because of the encounter something comes into being. So this is actually what already happens in every meeting, in every process, and is therefore always already the case. Because inevitably, everything starts a new relationship with its surroundings. The consequence is infinite potentiality.
Every person is already a very complex, talented ongoingness of thinking/feeling/doing and therefore extremely dynamic. When people meet, inevitably there is intra-activity going on. We are different after every encounter. In chapter 3 I will explain how intra-activity can inspire my creative processes and collaborations and my music.