Desde Jupiter 2.0

[Work in progress, 2020-21]

The first Chilean science fiction novel “Desde Jupiter” (1877) is rewritten by a bot (A.I. system) that gives phrases and paragraphs from the text mixed with keywords from the current social, political, ecologic, sanitary, and technological context. This way, adding the necessities and contingencies of today to the story. This A.I. becomes a utopic oracle that provides predictions of a past future. The text is recorded by different voices from different places. The orality fosters a nonlinear collective memory of a series of events and testimonies of a present that has not yet been.

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a radiation that exists in the whole universe and contains valuable information in its densities, temperatures, and magnetic fields. They contain secrets of hidden things, dark matter, dark energy, as well as other portals and unknown things. In the original text, Carlos -a “Santiaguino”- travels to Jupiter by a process of “magnetization”. In the new version, the CMB is used as a map to navigate magnetic portals for interplanetary voyages. The CMB provides a starting point for the writing of the new text.

A collective radio reading was done with the first edited texts, this was presented at the Tsonami Festival, 2020. The second stage envisions the creation of a choral piece. This way this story is sung and the words are orally weaved into our collective memory. This (ch)oral piece is envisioned to be founded on the principles of “Quantum Improvisation” proposed by the composer Pauline Oliveros. The idea is that this way it is possible to challenge binaries, and hegemonic notions of music, sound, and the emergence of bodies in a collective chant.