Aldo Lara
Aldo Mauricio Lara Mendoza
PhD student in Hildesheim University
aldo.lara@uni-hildesheim.de
Aldo has participated as a drummer in the Afro-Cuban band „Tumbadora Jazz“ (Mexico) and has recorded prehispanic jazz with „Purpúrea Jazz“ (Mexico). Recently he has collaborated with the live-coder composer Laura Zapata (Colombia).
Title of the Dissertation
The unknowing side of the algorithm: Live coding in Latin America
Project description
In this thesis I discuss and critically analyze some colonial assumptions of live coding from the global north in contrast to the practice of live coding in Latin America (LATAM). To do so, I first critically discuss different colonial problems that arise from diverse contemporary approaches, resulting in the recommendation to consider more complex circumstances of power in the global south; in how live coding puts into practice greater complexity in the social system of art that could grant to the structural reinforcement of the next society, as well as a critique of the inherited tonality in different media. Later, I discuss other sound colonial assumptions using the decolonial praxis-theory from LATAM live coders and I propose different forms of decolonization of sound. Finally, it is offered a way out of the convergence of interests between live coding in Latin America and the “methodology” of black studies and the “theory” of sonic fiction.
Publications
2024 „Social Operators Contingency Reducers: reflections on the study of art and music“
Doctoral dissertation (in publication process). Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City, Mexico.
2023 „The Unknowing Side of the Algorithm: Decolonising live coding from Latin America“
First author in the indexed journal „Organised Sound“ Cambridge University Press, UK.
2017 „Descriptions of the State in the Periphery of Modern Society“
Author of an article (in review process) in the indexed journal “Contemporary Criticism. Journal of Political Theory” Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2016 “Second-order observation and functional method: a wide-angle view in sociology”
First author in the indexed journal „Globality and Citizenship Policy“ Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Mexico.
2015 „Yosoy132 as a node, a contribution of Laclaun’s equivalence logic“
First author of the article in the index magazine „Dos Puntas“, year VII, No. 11 of the National University of San Juan, Faculty of Social Sciences, Argentina.
2014 “The concept of culture in modern society. An observation from the theory of social systems“ Co-author of the article in „Journal of Social Sciences“, vol. XX, No. 3 from the University of Zulia Maracaibo, Venezuela.
„Luhmann, Laclau: Theoretical contribution to the analytical deepening of the protest movements“ Author of dissertation, published in the index magazine „Reason and language“, vol. 18, No. 88, December, pp. 1-94. Institute of Technology and Advanced Studies, Monterrey State of Mexico, Mexico.