Ximena Alarcón-Díaz is a sound artist-researcher interested in listening and sounding our sonic migrations. She composes immersive listening collective experiences and creates Interfaces for Relational Listening, exploring people’s sense of place and telepresence for the emergence of aural territories of memory and emotion. She has a PhD in Music Technology and Innovation (DMU), and became a Deep Listening® certified tutor, mentored by Pauline Oliveros. Through postdoctoral awards she created Sounding Underground (Leverhulme Trust 2007-2009); the telematic improvisations Networked Migrations (CRiSAP, 2011-2017); and the embodied telematic system INTIMAL (Marie Skłodowska Curie IF 2017-2019). Awardee of art funds she has created: INTIMAL App© (The Studio Recovery Fund 2021), the surround sound installation UNRAVELLING/DESENREDANDO (Immersive Audio Network 2023; Four Nations International Fund, 2024), and the installation Huellas de Aire (MAMM, 2024). She teaches at the Center for Deep Listening (RPI), and is Coordinator of Postgraduate Arts Degrees at the Universidad de Antioquia.
http://ximenaalarcon.net