Sensible listening technologies: a feminist and decolonial methodology for music

Authors

  • Isabel Porto Nogueira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2025.13.9958

Keywords:

Listening, Feminisms, Decoloniality, Sound Creation, Creative diary

Abstract

This article presents listening as part of a feminist and decolonial methodology, which also discusses sound production and creation, and presents dialogues and creative diaries as process tools. From bell hooks and Suely Rolnik, among others, the idea of listening emerges as something sensible and relational, encouraging the invention of worlds and the vital drive.

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Author Biography

Isabel Porto Nogueira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Isabel Nogueira (aka Bel_Medula) is a pianist, composer, poet, researcher, and music producer. With a Ph.D. in Musicology, she creates experimental songs using voice, piano, and synthesizers, focusing on improvisation. She has released numerous experimental music albums through labels in Brazil, Italy, Peru, and the United States, as well as the song albums PeleOsso (2019), Luna (2020), Semente (2021), Abala Ladaia (2022), and A Dança do Caos (2023). She is a certified Deep Listening specialist by the Deep Listening Institute and conducts workshops on this topic in Brazil and abroad. She mentors creative processes in music, teaches at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and coordinates the Research Group Sônicas: gênero, corpo e música (Sonics: Gender, Body, and Music). She has participated in festivals such as Kinobeat, Música Estranha, FIME, Morrostock, and Novas Frequências (Brazil), Electric Medway (UK), Femnoise (Spain), and Topia (Berlin). In 2022, she co-edited and published the book The Body and Sound, Music and Performance with Irish sound artist Linda O’Keeffe through Routledge, featuring over twenty authors from various countries. In 2023, she received the Funarte Pixinguinha Music Grant to undertake a concert tour in Northeast Brazil. She is developing a methodology for creative processes based on listening, dreams, and diary writing.

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Published

2025-08-20

How to Cite

Nogueira, I. P. (2025). Sensible listening technologies: a feminist and decolonial methodology for music. Vortex Music Journal, 13, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2025.13.9958

Issue

Section

Dossier “Music and Women”