Latin America

  • The Archive and the Aural City

    The Archive and the Aural City

    The Archive and the Aural City: Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening, book by Alejandro L. Madrid at Duke University Press “In The Archive and the Aural City, Alejandro L. Madrid examines the possibilities for retrieving from the archive sounds…

  • Journal of Sonic Studies 19 ─ Sounds of Latin America

    Journal of Sonic Studies 19 ─ Sounds of Latin America

    The latest issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies is now available online. “The editorial team of The Journal of Sonic Studies (JSS) is happy and proud to announce that JSS19 is online now. Please click here for the Table of Contents…

  • Speculative Noise and Premonitory Matter: An Interview with Jorge Barco

    Speculative Noise and Premonitory Matter: An Interview with Jorge Barco

    (Translated from the original published at Sonic Field in Spanish) To ask about the borders between science, art and speculation is ambiguous. Although the categories that we have created over the years have forced us to separate the disciplines and…

  • Journal of Sonic Studies: Call for Papers – Soundscapes of Latin America

    Journal of Sonic Studies: Call for Papers – Soundscapes of Latin America

    Along with Pedro Oliveira from Brazil, I am honored to be guest editor in the upcoming issue of the journal of sonic studies, dedicated entirely to Latin America. Music, radio, and TV broadcasts; blaring loudspeakers, public announcements, street vendors; city…

  • Eco part 3: Cecilia López

    Eco part 3: Cecilia López

    This is the third part of Echo, a series of interviews of Latin American female artists. This time I interviewed Cecilia López, an artist from Argentina, who I had the privilege to meet and see performing in Phill Niblock´s Experimental Intermedia space…

  • Eco part 2: Alma Laprida

    Eco part 2: Alma Laprida

    This is the second part of Echo, a series of interviews of Latin American female artists. This time I interviewed Alma Laprida, an artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina, whose work with sound has been drawing my attention for some time now. Here the interview.…