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Shared Resonance – A Participatory Electro-Acoustic Ritual (2026)

Kaixiang Zhang
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This exposition presents a practice-based research project that reimagines electronic music performance through the participatory and ritualistic ethos of Capoeira. Initially motivated by a critique of audience passivity in contemporary electronic performance, the project shifted from “translating” Capoeira into an electronic context toward constructing ritual-based frameworks that foster shared authorship, presence, and collective agency. The research unfolded through iterative processes of design, testing, and reflection. Early on, ritual was established as a conceptual foundation, situating the work within debates on participation, spectacle, and cultural belonging. Subsequent phases explored instrument-making as both technical and symbolic practice, producing DIY electroacoustic objects (Lua and Mar) that embody accessibility, agency, and transparency. Attention then turned to orchestrating the ritual performance itself, experimenting with spatial, temporal, and sensory structures that redistribute power and unsettle the artist–audience divide. The process culminated in a public performance integrating instruments, structure, and reflection, while raising new questions around documentation, belonging, and the fragility of agency. From these iterations emerged the framework of ritual as multi-dimensional architecture: a compositional and perceptual field where time, space, materials, and social dynamics interweave to sustain collective creativity. The exposition combines documentation of instruments and performances with reflective writing, offering both a record of process and a proposition for future development.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsparticipatory performance, agency as art, DIY instruments, Rituals, Capoeira, collective creativity
date02/09/2025
published23/01/2026
last modified23/01/2026
statuspublished
copyrightKaixiang Zhang
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3845397/3845398
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.3845397
published inResearch Catalogue


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nameHome Photo
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nameInstruments Documentation
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nameInstruments Documentation-0001
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nameRitual Facilitating Guide
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nameGlimpse of Ritual Performance
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nameOlfactory Documentation
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nameGustatory Documentation
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nameTactile Documentation
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nameVideo Audio Documentation
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nameFractal Structures in Music and Ritual
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nameTechnological Intuitions
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nameFailed Designs and What They Taught Me
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nameTechnology Between Support and Control: A Reflection on Agency
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nameFeedbacks from Test Performance
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nameFeedbacks from Final Performance
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