Neurodiversity and 4E music cognition in technological environments Metatopia

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Alicia Peñalba
University of Valladolid
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5725-0639
Rubén López-Cano
Escuela Superior de Music of Catalunya
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9266-5138
Jaime Del Val
Instituto Metabody /Reverso

Our societies are promoting the participation of "disabled" or neurodiverse people in musical artistic activity. Technology has played an important role in the development of musical devices for inclusion. At the beginning they started mapping gestures to sound but nowadays they involve multimodal structures that combine them with lights, physical and architectural structures, haptic textures, among others. Metatopia environments created in the context of the Metabody project have been designed allowing the participation of neurodiverse people. Since 2013 this artist has been collaborating with people with cognitive, physical and sensory neurodiversity. This article discusses the term "disability" and proposes to replace it with neurodiversity in line with the cognitive theories of the 4E cognition paradigm: embodied, embedded, enactive, extended. Metatopia's possibilities with neurodiverse individuals are further examined through observations and interviews. The results of this research point to an expansion of the capabilities of people in Metatopia immersions in terms of safety, initiative, habitus breaking and concentration. These changes are explained in terms of the techniques developed in Metatopia: flexinamics, desalisalignment and amorphogenesis and their relationship with 4E cognition theories.

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Neurodiversity, 4E cognition, Inclusion, Metatopia

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Peñalba, Alicia et al. “Neurodiversity and 4E music cognition in technological environments Metatopia”. Artnodes, no. 28, doi:10.7238/artnodes.v0i28.384571.
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Author Biographies

Alicia Peñalba, University of Valladolid

Associate Professor of music (ac. Professor) at the University of Valladolid. Degree in Musicology (final degree National Prize), flautist, speech therapist and music therapist. She obtained the European Doctorate Mention in 2008 and with a mention of quality with a thesis on the role of corporeality in the musical interpretation of acoustic and digital instruments (extraordinary doctorate prize). She has participated in numerous European projects, R&D and regional projects and enjoyed more than 9 months of research stays in international centres (Sheffield University; Rene Descartes-París V; InfoMus Lab- Génova; McGill, Music Technology Group-Montreal). She has been coordinator of the master’s in Art Therapy and Art Education for Social Inclusion (UVa, UCM, UAM) and is the president of the committee for Experts of Music Therapy in the professional association AELFA-IF. Her lines of research are oriented towards the study of the 4E embodied cognitive processes in the musical experience and inclusive musical practices mediated by technology, having published over 50 pieces of writing relating to these subjects.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5725-0639

Researcher ID: AAA-2371-2019

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=PXbEm9UAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao

 

Rubén López-Cano, Escuela Superior de Music of Catalunya

Rubén López Cano is a specialist in musical and semiotic rhetoric and, philosophy of the corporealised cognition of music, popular urban music, musical recycling from the Middle Ages until the mashup era, memes and digital musical culture, audiovisual musicology, diasporas, the musical body and subjectivity, artistic research and the epistemology of musical research.

He is the author of around a hundred academic articles and the books Plurifocal Music (Mexico: JGH, 1997), Music and Rhetoric in the Baroque (Barcelona: Amalgama, 2012), How to complete a communication, speech or paper and not to die in the attempt (Barcelona: SIbE, 2012), artistic research in music problems, experiences and proposals (in co-authorship with Úrsula San Cristóbal) (Barcelona: Fonca-Esmuc, 2014), disperse music, appropriation, influences, stealing and remixes in the era of digital listening (Barcelona: Musikeion books, 2018) and Music Counts. Rhetoric, narrativity, dramaturgy, body and affects (Barcelona: Fonca-Esmuc, 2020).

She directed the journal TRANS- Revista Transcultural de Música (2005-2013) and belongs to the  assessing advisers of the academic journals of Europe and Latin America.

ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9266-5138

Researcher ID: K-4829-2017

Scopus Author ID: 56481581200

Web of Science Researcher ID X-7760-2019

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=qi_UCroAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao

Jaime Del Val, Instituto Metabody /Reverso

Jaime del Val is a multidisciplinary artist, philosopher, promotor of the Metabody Project and of Reverso. Since 2001 he has been developing a convergence between arts (dance, performance, visual arts, music, architecture), new technologies, critical thought (queer posthumanism) and activism. His projects has been presented in more than 30 countries in 4 continents. Since 2013 he has coordinated the project METABODY, with a network of 38 partners in 16 countries, having organised more than 50 international forums and coordinated over 60 research projects. He has published more than 120 essays on philosophy and critical thought in journals such as Leonardo, World Futures or Performance Research and with publishers such as MIT, Palgrave or Routledge, and he has given more than 150 conferences in the universities U.C.Berkeley, Stanford, MIT-medialab, Yale, Duke, Cambridge. In 2010 he co-founded metahumanism, promoting numerous activities in the sphere of critical posthumanism, and has edited the journals Metabody and Reverso. As a pianist and composer he has recorded 13 records and over 300 works, and as a plastic artist he has exhibited pictorical and photographical works since 1997. Also since then he has developed a continuous activism in numerous movements, especially the LGTB-queer and ecologist ones, which he has occasionally coordinated at an international and national level.

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