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Radical Sounds Latin America 2023

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The Whirlwind of Our Mess – Citational Sound Frequencies

Radical Sounds Latin America is pleased to announce “The Whirlwind of Our Mess – Citational Sound Frequencies.” The diaspora remains a place for intimacies in opacity, willingly open, yet undesirable and messy to the outsider, where transmissions lose control, yet find themselves boundless to the written word. The diaspora disrupts articulated meanings, resonating in a multitude of understandings; therefore, across times and spaces, we ingest atmospheres that trace sonic strategies, sidestepping notions of purity and loss. The diaspora holds stories, energies, and histories approaching sound as a sphere of empowerment and analysis; mobilizing individuals and communities to sustain and maintain human connections.

“Messing-up mission reverberates in the kinds of queer scholarship that focus on the recognition and centering of underrecognized practices, stances, and situations that deviate from, resist, or run counter to the workings of normality. Far from romanticizing deviance and oppositionality, it intends to locate discomfort, dissonance, and disorder as necessary and grounded experiences in everyday life.” (Manalansan IV, M. F., 2014).

El desmadre, the sonic tumult, and upheaval, is a noise strike. At its heart, the sounds emanating can become -self-organized spaces of transmission-thus finding hope in this endurance and an answer to ongoing dystopia. Against all odds, our messing-up keeps unfolding gestures of care, into borderless environments.

In a way, the connections in the diaspora to citational practices are a play of sameness and difference, identity, hybridity, and alterity  (Jembere, Janine., 2020). Every citational sound is a reflection of the ever-shifting structural relationships, multiphonic connections operating, and compelling expressive manifestations of being, all enabled by sound and matter, thus further expanding, the mess, the complex non-linearity that sound conjures. 

APPLICATION – A MULTI-SENSORIAL WRITTEN COLLABORATION AND PANEL

Applications to “Whirlwind of Our Mess – Citational Sound Frequencies” are open from May 25th to June 30th (midnight CET). Confirmation of participation will be sent on July 7th.

Examining the gaps, omissions, and politics of mess, “The Whirlwind of Our Mess – Citational Sound Frequencies” explores how, through mess, we build new meanings of diaspora, opening up personal and communal alternative histories, narratives, and stories. 

This year we are looking for 4 participants who will each submit 1 contribution to be part of our web platform and our discourse program festival panel. You can access the previous publication here.

This open call is a paid commission supported by MusicBoard Berlin.

Please keep in mind that if you apply as a duo or collective the fee will still be per commissioned piece, therefore it would be the responsibility of the members of the duo/collective to divide/organize the fee between them.

FORMAT

Applications to “Whirlwind of Our Mess – Citational Sound Frequencies” particularly encourage projects that engage in everyday life, open-source principles, and make excursions into issues of empathy, audience, participation, and accessibility. 

HOW TO APPLY

Applications are submitted to the following address: aleyda@radicalsoundslatinamerica.com with the subject “Open call 2023 – [your name].” Applications should include:

• Short Bio
• An abstract of 250-300 words or if already have a full proposal aligned to the theme (500-700 words)
• A portfolio of previous work (PDF) 
• Contact Information

Although the event’s main language of communication works that play and embrace a multitude of languages are encouraged.

If your proposal is chosen, you will be invited to further develop it into a full exposition by September 15th, 2023, and will be given the option to participate in the panel happening the first week of October.

For further information and questions please contact: aleyda@radicalsoundslatinamerica.com

We are looking for works that reflect (but are not limited to) the following topics and questions resonating:

Centering on sound, diaspora, and community, archives reverberate with histories. In order to address them, it may be necessary to emerge in contested arenas where historical accounts are both challenged and expanded through acts of dissent and defiance.

Amid shifting political landscapes, this discourse program delves into the reimagining of objects, landscapes, built environments, and bodies, posing thought-provoking questions:

• How can hybrid identities and contested territories reverberate through experimental digital practices, oral traditions, and archival apparatus, shaping their embodied existence?
• There is an infinite number of untold stories, unheard voices, unrealized dreams, and undreamt worlds. How might sonic strategies stimulate alternative fluid, shifting, undefined, continuously redefining shared histories?
• Intimate, unstable, and even flawed, DIY archives unfurl, bringing forth new dimensions of responsibility and accountability into visibility.
• What are some material condensations of the counter-archive, and how do they evolve or create new political realms?
• If we tune our ears to the encoded materialities of the sonic diaspora, what other discoveries might we make about our own journey of growth and sense of belonging?

 

We are looking forward to receiving your proposals!

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