Llorián García Flórez

Ethnomusicologist and researcher

Llorián García Flórez is an ethnomusicologist. A researcher in training at the University of Uviéu, he studies the role of voice and listening in the context opened up by the geontological sonorities of the “phonocene” (Despret 2020) – the era in which we regain confidence in the musicality of the world (and its tremors), as part of a multi-species revival that is still possible. With a doctoral thesis dedicated to the decolonisation of audibility in Asturian traditional music and dance, Llorián’s work epistemically accompanies and “asturfabulates” with rooted revitalisation movements as a way of contributing to the generation of an ecolocalised thought in Asturias. This field of enquiry connects with the theme of the workshop insofar as it links the design of sound with the problem, key today, of how to “take land” (Latour 2020) in the context of an Asturias ravaged by various forms of extractivism.