Lexicon
Vocabulary of operations, conditions, and perceptual situations recurring across my work.
One asterisk (*): an established term used here in its commonly recognized sense.
Two asterisks (**): an existing term substantially redefined by the author.
Three asterisks (***): a term and definition coined entirely by the author.
ACOUSTIC ANATOMY
(***) Sound families assigned to specific zones of the human body, understood as a territory.
AI ARCHAEOLOGY
(***) Using obsolete, early-generation AI apps as artistic material — treating outdated generative technology itself as an archaeological artifact of a previous era.
ANALOGUE SIMULATION
(**) Digital content that imitates the texture or appearance of the analogue without ever crossing into physical form.
ANTHROPOLOGICAL MACHINE
(**) A complex anthropological system, run through a mechanism of gears that makes it emerge as systemic.
ANTHROPOMORPHISM
(*) Machines receiving human properties, objects holding a soul. A specific case of Object Agency.
ANTI-MORPHOSIS
(***) The deliberate interruption of a transformative process, before reaching its destination. Structural opposite of "palindromic metamorphosis loop."
ANTI-PERFORMANCE SCORE
(***) Conceptual performance instructions with no real stage or virtual-representation consequences.
ANTILEGO
(***) A method to form a discourse from theoretically opposite, non-coincident elements, opposing the idea of LEGO, the kids game, where all tokens are made to match. Includes Denied Convergence.
ART AND TOYS
(***) Folk toys — plastic and wood kid puppets, carousel toys, ping-pong balls — played as instruments, not props.
ARTUMENT
(***) A work of art as a pure rhetorical, philosophical, discursive, or ontological argument, instead of a sublimating, artistic, poetic expression.
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL
(**) Childhood remembrances and social experiences used directly as compositional material.
Fatalismo Mágico · The Mexican National Anthem · Mex Toys · La Pasión Según la Gente
CARTESIAN DUALISM
(**) A being or system defined by an unresolved separation between two poles — historically related to mind and matter, here its use extends.
Hidden 2 · El Instrumento · Antilegos · Máquina Latina · Die Tränen der Dinge
CHILDHOOD RESIDUE
(*) Childhood memories and memory-disrupted self-image, used as direct compositional, conceptual, visual, or discursive material.
The Mexican National Anthem · Hidden 2 · El Instrumento · Post-COVID Series
CHRONOTOPE
(*) Bakhtin: the intrinsic connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships that are artistically expressed in literature.
Fatalismo Mágico · Viertel nach Schatten · La Pasión Según la Gente · The Forest Who Ate a Cemetery
CHRONOTOPIC INVERSION
(**) A real chronotope that the artist generates, intervenes on, or restages, and which then disguises itself as neutral, traditional, or spontaneous, hiding the authorship of what was constructed.
Viertel nach Schatten · La Pasión Según la Gente · Teleprompter / Nubes y Nómadas
COLLECTIVE COHERENCE
(**) Performers driven by shared sonic, gestural, or bodily cues — body language, movement, choreography — arrive at one unified sonic, dramatic, or conceptual result, whether led by a single performer or distributed democratically across the group. Related to entrainment, Collective Coherence also covers phenomena mediated digitally or through coded instruction. Interlocking Collaboration is one mechanism that produces it.
The Mexican National Anthem · Biberdam-Assut · Die Basta Zeiten sind Vorbei · Qu Trompa · Qu Vara · Teleprompter / Nubes y Nómadas · Antilegos · Máquina Latina
COLONIALISM
(**) A civilization fragmented and prevented from forming continuity on its own terms.
COMPOUND INCOHERENCE
(**) People, proud of a faith that colonization imposed on them, practice a chaotic, mixed form of a primarily sober, serious ritual.
COMPOUND OF ERRORS
(**) Nested, Matryoshka-style layers of human inaccuracy, each one generating a more developed level of inaccuracy.
CONVERGENCE-DIVERGENCE
(***/**) AI sense: a converged process interrupted and re-defined by divergent human gestures. Dying/accompaniment sense: accompanying another person's dying closely enough.
CULTURAL AUTOMATION AND HOPE
(**) A method in which automated, romanticized ideas of identity and resistance are confronted with real manifestations of identity, resistance, and hope.
DEEP CULTURE
(*) Edward T. Hall: the internal, largely unconscious part of a culture — the beliefs, values, and implicit rules that shape behavior, underlying customs and traditions.
The Mexican National Anthem · Viertel nach Schatten · Fatalismo Mágico · La Pasión Según la Gente
DENIED CONVERGENCE
(***) A planned combination of different discursive elements or cognitive identities generates incoherence. Coherence is then denied, and incoherence is desired as discourse.
DEVOURING FOREST
(***) The forest as an active subject rather than a passive backdrop: it reclaims what is left inside it, digesting objects and bodies until they become indistinguishable from itself.
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY MEDIATION
(*) A work whose final realization cannot exist without digital technology mediating between its analogue and digital components.
Hidden 2 · Teleprompter / Nubes y Nómadas · Hearing in Bed · Antilegos · Máquina Latina · Die Schaukel
EMOTIONAL PORNOGRAPHY
(**) Unstable private emotions are exposed raw.
FAKE ARCHAEOLOGY
(**) An imagined archaeological excavation, pursuing specific pre-defined results, using a real, paradigmatic object, as an absolute reference.
FAKE ONTOLOGY
(**) Fictional myths, conjured out of nothing, carrying the same narrative weight as real myths.
FALSE WATER CYCLE
(**) The drip condensation of vapor, derived from the performer’s breath, is arbitrarily considered a “water cycle,” using a collector to reinsert that water into the instruments.
FICTION-NON FICTION
(*) The unresolved threshold between staged performance and documentary footage.
Fatalismo Mágico · The Mexican National Anthem · Viertel nach Schatten · Mex Toys · La Pasión Según la Gente
FUNCTION LANDSCAPE
(**) The landscape as an active dramaturgical character, not as a backdrop, but as an actor.
Fatalismo Mágico · La Pasión Según la Gente · Der Wald · The Forest Who Ate a Cemetery
FUNCTION PERMUTATION
(***) A process in which the original function of a being or an object is substituted by another function that does not pertain to it.
GAN-BASED PROJECTIONS
(**) An AI selfie system transforms noise into an image through a single generative pass, not through iterative noise elimination.
GEOMETRIC LEGACY
(***) An early-AI-based narrative technique documenting an entire generative arc, iteration by iteration. Mother-cell for future narrative series.
IMPROVISATION WITH INTERFERENCE
(**) Improvised sonic discourse, interrupted by brief scores, then continuing as improvisation that has been influenced by those scores.
INTERLOCKING COLLABORATION
(**) A hocket-based decodified reference, where the final, perceived result can exist only across active performers — no one holds the whole result alone. One mechanism producing Collective Coherence.
ISOLATED COHERENCE
(***) The contrary of Collective Coherence. Performers read the same coded instructions alone, only to realize later that they were taking part in a collective coherence.
Teleprompter / Nubes y Nómadas · Hearing in Bed · Antilegos · Máquina Latina · Die Tränen der Dinge
ISOLATED-VIDEO PERFORMANCE
(***) The frame functions as a container, an enclosure that compresses expression, transforming it into expression in solitude.
Hearing in Bed · Teleprompter / Nubes y Nómadas · Antilegos · Máquina Latina · Die Tränen der Dinge
LINEAR OR NON-LINEAR FLOOR MATS AS SOUND TRIGGERS
(***) Diverse cardboard coded mats on the floor, to be foot-activated by the conductor-composer.
MECHANIC TREMOR
(***) An automaton whose imperfect mechanism trembles. This tremor is perceived as human vulnerability.
NETWORK OF TREES
(**) Trees fitted with sensors send signals corresponding to the movements of their branches to a computer system for reassignment and distribution. This digital information allows the creation of tree networks via the internet, and with it, the creation of "forests" distributed across real geographic zones.
Trees with Sensors · Mycelia · Die Schaukel
NOCTURNAL INK-DRAWINGS
(***) Drawings made at night, recording what's sensed rather than seen.
OBJECT AGENCY
(***) Objects or machines that act with capacities beyond their function, exerting the effect of intention on whoever perceives them. Anthropomorphism is one form this takes.
OBSERVATION AS SYNAPSE
(***) Permanent compulsive observation of beings, places, or moments considered irrelevant or hidden, which results in a synaptic trigger, not an idea.
OCTOPUS CONDUCTOR
(**) A conductor divides his body (hands, feet, head) into distinct functions of direction or device activation, eventually using scores that correspond to the appropriate parts of his body — the way an octopus distributes thought across its arms rather than concentrating it in a single center.
PALINDROMIC METAMORPHOSIS LOOP
(**) A continuous transformation, in palindrome, repeated: AB-BA-AB-BA, etc.
PERCEIVED ECOLOGY
(**) Perceived ecological cycle, even if it is just a simulation.
PERCEIVED FOREST
(***) A forest as it exists through a conscious being's perception: not as an ecosystem, but as filtered through fear, memory, or myth.
PERFORMED VULNERABILITY
(*) Fragile, gentle, loving and unexpected relationships between instruments, performers, and embedded histories.
PROMPTER SCORE
(*) A portable teleprompter that projects coded information and specific instructions, read by performers as they walk.
PROSTHETIC ADD-ON
(***) A human-body, form-related instrument, worn on the body part it extends, that adds or enhances its capabilities via digitalization of analogue or organic information.
QUANTIZED MASS
(**) The mass as a complex system is subjected to a regularization mechanism that allows its complexity to be perceived in pulses or melodies.
RANDOM-BASED ACOUSTIC FIELD
(*) Sounds are triggered by physical data, as in sonification. Still, the final pickup files used are selected at random, contradicting the basic principles of sonification's transduction processes.
Mosaicos · Steim: Gloves with Sensors · El Instrumento · The Body of Ligia · Trees with Sensors · Interaktion Festival
RANDOMIZED SOUND-BANKS
(***) A unified collection of sounds randomly selected by software to generate unpredictable sound sequences. Complementary to Random-Based Acoustic Field.
Mosaicos · Steim: Gloves with Sensors · El Instrumento · The Body of Ligia · Interaktion Festival
RUBIK'S ANTHROPOLOGY
(***) Arbitrary permutation of diverse archaeological fragments to form seemingly coherent shapes, violating archaeological, historical, or scientific principles.
SIMULTANEOUS EXISTENCES
(*) Inhabiting more than one state of being without resolving into any of them. It is defined by a minimum of two simultaneous existences — there can be more.
The Birth of a Ship · Petenera · Mandarino Marioneta · Huge Mobiles · Sinus-Köpek · The Body of Ligia · Monas Series · Teleprompter / Nubes y Nómadas · Antilegos · Máquina Latina · Trees with Sensors
SOCIAL PROOF
(*) The psychological and social phenomenon in which people assume the actions of others reflect correct behavior in a given situation, and adjust their own behavior to conform.
Fatalismo Mágico · The Mexican National Anthem · Viertel nach Schatten · Mex Toys · La Pasión Según la Gente · Interaktion Festival
SONIFICATION
(*) The technique of translating data into sound, using non-speech audio to convey information or make data sonically perceptible.
SOUNDSCAPE FOR THE DEAF
(**) Every sound and dialogue in a video is captioned with a precise acoustic description, placed temporally at its exact position, frame by frame — SDH captioning taken to its maximum precision.
SPATIAL PERSPECTIVE RECORDING
(**) One technician records the launch of an arrow from the bow, while another records the arrow’s point of impact. By editing the volume of both channels, the listener can sonically “travel with the arrow,” in front of the speakers.
STRUCTURAL SEX
(*) Mechanization and regulation of sexual interaction, as culture, in the context of the mechanization and regulation of play and toys, as culture.
SUBLIMATED FOREST
(**) The forest spoken about rather than the one inhabited.
The Forest Who Ate a Cemetery · Monas Series · Tent Visions · Trees with Sensors · Der Wald
TECHNO-FOREST
(***) The forest documenting itself directly through technological mediation.
Transforest · Die Kapelle der Dämmerung
TIK-TOK SCORES
(**) Selected TikTok videos, used directly as a score, to be synchronized by a performer with their instrument.
TOUCHING FOREST
(***) The forest as lived, physical present: sleeping inside it, hiding in it, surviving through it — direct contact without narrative, without symbol, without distance.