Touch as techne: rethinking digitality

This article introduces <i>Pulse Project</i> (2011–), a doctoral performance research project that engages in critical discourse between art and science through the creation of digital soundscapes that weave together artistic, medical, technological, ancient and modern methodologies. Pulse ‘reading’, case histories, notations of pulses and programming soundscape compositions are all used together as methods for exploring the cultural encounter between artist, participants and diverse medical practices. <i>Pulse Project</i> seeks to provide an examination of the means with which the temporal materiality of touch can be used together with audio programming to form a translation and synthesis of different ecologies and disciplines, e.g. medicine and art, Eastern and Western practices, touch and digitality, etc. Drawing upon my experience as a clinical acupuncturist (with training in biomedicine), I use Chinese pulse diagnostics together with SuperCollider (an audio synthesis programming language) to inform the composition process of each soundscape. In this way, <i>Pulse Project</i> interrogates the aesthetic and philosophical axioms underpinning contemporary medicine, technology and cognitive embodiment through the exploration of their corollary ‘others’—traditional Chinese medicine and music theory—in order to generate a fresh approach to embodiment and soundscape composition.

本文介绍了**脉冲项目（Pulse Project）**（2011年至今），这是一项博士阶段的表演研究项目，旨在通过创作融合艺术、医学、技术与古今多元研究方法的数字音景，搭建艺术与科学之间的批判性对话。脉象诊察、病例档案、脉象记录与音景创作编程等方法被结合运用，以此探究创作者、参与者与多元医疗实践之间的文化互动。脉冲项目旨在探析如何将触感的时间性物质性与音频编程相结合，实现不同生态与学科领域的转译与融合——例如医学与艺术、东西方实践、触感与数字技术等范畴的跨界整合。依托本人作为临床针灸师（兼具生物医学训练背景）的实践经验，本研究将中医脉诊与音频合成编程语言SuperCollider相结合，以此指导每一则音景的创作流程。借此路径，脉冲项目通过探究当代医学、技术与认知具身性背后的美学与哲学公理，并以作为其对应"他者"的传统中医与音乐理论为切入点，旨在催生具身性研究与音景创作的全新范式。

搜集汇总

背景与挑战

背景概述

该数据集包含三个音频文件，是《Pulse Project》研究项目的一部分，探讨了艺术与科学之间的批判性对话，通过数字音景创作结合了多种方法论。项目使用中医脉诊和音频合成编程语言SuperCollider，旨在重新思考触觉与数字性的关系。