THE MUSIC OF PROXIMA CENTAURI B: <i>THREE SINGERS ON PLANET M</i>, BY OLI JAN

Abstract This article presents an exomusicologically informed response to the theme of alienation through encounter in Oli Jan's Three Singers on Planet M , in which actors execute apparently ritualistic sounds and actions. Their activities signal aesthetic intentionality but do so through an unfamiliar cultural display that defies the rules of our own lived experience of embodiment and environment. The conceit sets up an interesting question related to the somatic imaginary: how can and how do we relate to the imagination of non-human bodies?