Image by Cielo Saucedo
Friday, April 16
7pm CT
Streaming on Twitch
FREE, $5+ suggested donation (100% goes to the artists)
Curated by Carolina Vélez Muñiz, HACER RUIDO includes sound work and research by Soledad Muñoz, Bárbara Lázara, Babak Ahteshamipour, Luis Fernando Amaya, and animations by Cielo Saucedo. Through performances which remember, question, and propose; the concert offers ways in which sound embodies our repulsions and desires. HACER RUIDO then honors the act of making noise as a form of protest.
Artist Line-up
7:00pm CT - Soledad Muñoz
7:30pm - Bárbara Lázara
8:00pm - Babak Ahteshamipour
8:30pm - Luis Fernando Amaya
Animations by Cielo Saucedo
This is the first of three shows curated by 2021 ESS Curatorial Fellow Carolina Vélez Muñiz. Read more about Carolina and the Fellowship here. Read essays by Carolina on each Fellow by clicking their name above.
About the Artists
Soledad Muñoz will play and contextualize the resistance of various records produced right before Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile.
An interdisciplinary artist, cultural worker and researcher born in her family’s exile in Canada and raised in Rancagua, Chile. Soledad’s work seeks to explore the ever-changing social spaces we inhabit and the archival properties of cloth. Through the investigation of the materiality of sound and the understanding of the woven structure as the continuation of our interconnected social gesture, her practice seeks to fabricate embodied instances that participate in the construction of a more equitable society and the creation of new archives of resistance.
Soledad’s involvement with music started at a very young age in her hometown of Rancagua. Once in Canada, this interest grew into a more experimental approach to sound, focusing on deconstruction, modular synthesis, instrument building, and the physical/material aspects of sculpting in space with sound. She uses live computer sampling, single oscillator synthesizers, her voice, and handcrafted instruments for her live performances and installations.
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Bárbara Lázara will perform with her voice throughout her living space.
An artist, vocalist, and researcher whose work intersects sound, theater, and social practices. She focuses on the role that language plays within colonization and the suppression of epistemic peripheries. Her work questions logo-centric thinking and the abuse of technology; while highlighting marginal media such as sorcery, telepathy and collective somatic practices.
As a singer, she works with linguistic substrates inspired by the culture of different animals like the echolocation of bats or the non-dialogical languages of cicadas. In the search of visceral sound articulations she excavates her body to disorganize language, in order to break it down into its smallest particles and vocalize some surviving vestige in the body tissue.
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Babak Ahteshamipour’s piece, Poly-temporal Prosthetics, will be an improvisation with vocals and bass through modular synthesis and effects.
An interdisciplinary artist born in Arak, Iran and currently living in Athens, Greece. His works are of socio-political, ethical and existential concerns. He works with painting/drawing, music/sound, video, writing and objects, which occasionally are combined in videos or installations. He has participated in various events and live performances mostly in small and cozy spaces.
He also holds a MSc degree in Mineral Resources Engineering from the Technical University of Crete.
https://babakahteshamipour.bandcamp.com/
https://babakahteshamipour.com/
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Luis Fernando Amaya’s piece: a soundscape with what is heard in the Puerto Rican jungle.
A composer and percussionist born in Aguascalientes, México. Topics such as collective memory, "flaw," and the relationship between humans and non-human others (such as plants and animals, imaginary or not) are commonly present in his work. He studied composition and music theory at the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Musicales (CIEM) in México City. Currently, Luis Fernando is pursuing a Ph.D. in composition at Northwestern University.
Amaya's music has been performed throughout North America (México, the US, Canada), South America, and Europe. He is the recipient of various awards and fellowships such as the Fonca-Conacyt Scholarship, Presidential Fellowship (NU), and representing México in the 61st International Rostrum of Composers of the UNESCO in Helsinki, Finland. As a performer, Amaya is a member of the collective composition and free improvisation trio Fat Pigeon.
His scores are published by BabelScores.
https://www.luisfernandoamaya.com/
https://soundcloud.com/luis-fernando-amaya
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The concert will include 3D animation work by Cielo Saucedo.
Working with computer generated imagery and earth works, they are invested in the precariousness of degrading ecosystems and technology. They argue a radical acceptance of our current climate crisis through disabled perspectives. They received their BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and are pursuing their MFA at UCLA. They have shown work in Chicago, Ecuador, New York, London and Los Angeles.