Sounding Territories: Dis/identificatory codings as relational worlding

This paper presents Sounding Territories, a sonic performance developed with Fundación Organizmo (Colombia) that explores dis/identificatory codings as an orientation for resisting and subverting algorithmic capture. Building on queer and more-than-human perspectives, the project reorients computational logics from stable classification toward relational and generative forms of dis/identification. Through deep listening, embodied performance, and model training, datasets were composed as relational constellations: entanglements of sounds and situations (e.g., fire–conversation–bird–wind) that enact the liveliness of data beyond representational frames. Rather than seeking legibility within existing taxonomies, dis/identification becomes a methodological reorientation—a performance of politics—that disturbs predictive logics to embrace illegibility as a generative principle. The paper contributes to more-than-human design by advancing dis/identificatory coding as a mode of relational worlding.