Eastern Resonance, 1st Harmonic: An In-Depth Interview with rEmPiT g0dDe$$

Leading up Eastern Resonance, the October 30 Quarantine Concert featuring experimental pop and club musicians from Asia and the diaspora, Curatorial Fellow James Gui sat down with each of the performers to get an idea of their background and thought process behind their music. The first interview of six is with Victoria Yam, performing as rEmPiT g0dDe$$; she describes finding a rave community in Singapore, the working class background behind her moniker, opening for Dis Fig in Thailand, and more!

EAT ESS: An Interview with the members of Eat Dis

EAT DIS is a dance music netlabel and collective established in 2018. Originally envisioned as a party series in Detroit, the concept pivoted after founder DJ Girl moved to Chicago. Blossoming from a group chat to a full-blown label, community, and family, EAT DIS and its deeply-online presence flourished during the pandemic. We talked to the six performing members at the upcoming TQC on September 23 to get to know them better before the show.

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VIVÊNCIAS en conversación con Juci Reis (en Español)

(Spanish) A poetic interview and conversation between Spring Curatorial Fellow Carolina Vélez Muñiz and independent curator Juci Reis, on ancestral modes of creating and cultural exchanges. Also available in English and Portuguese.

articleGuest UserSeptember 9, 2021The Quarantine Concerts, curatorial fellowship

VIVÊNCIAS em conversa com Juci Reis (em Português)

(Portuguese) A poetic interview and conversation between Spring Curatorial Fellow Carolina Vélez Muñiz and independent curator Juci Reis, on ancestral modes of creating and cultural exchanges. Also available in English and Spanish.

articleGuest UserSeptember 9, 2021The Quarantine Concerts, curatorial fellowship

VIVÊNCIAS in conversation with Juci Reis

A poetic interview and conversation between Spring Curatorial Fellow Carolina Vélez Muñiz and independent curator Juci Reis, on ancestral modes of creating and cultural exchanges. Also available in Spanish and Portuguese.

articleGuest UserSeptember 9, 2021The Quarantine Concerts, curatorial fellowship

Afro Sonorous Brazil: experiences and hybridisms

Afro-sonorous Brazil is an organic circuit connected to ancestral matrices, which is reinvented through the hybrid relation between body, voice, and instrument. This encounter, independent from a classic structure of Western music, searches for a phenomenological state to manifest creative representations between subjects and their cultural matrices which go beyond the experimental as a primary sense, and which expands towards what could be justified as a collective experience of constructing knowledge.

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Vivências: Cristian Ospina + Chongotronik

Cristian Ospina and Chongotronik are musicians and percussionists who will be performing in Vivências, a concert which I am organizing as part of the 2021 Spring Curatorial Fellowship. The concert looks at how tradition permeates into contemporary life in Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil, observing how everyday customs influence art. “Vivências” is the Portuguese word for when we vividly and intensely savor moments in our present. The streaming will include visuals by Paulina Leyva.

articleGuest UserJune 23, 2021The Quarantine Concerts, curatorial fellowship

Huele de Noche: Las Chikatanas

Chikatanas is an electronic and analog neo soul and dark rhythmic duo by Frida Veloz and Samantha C. They will play a set in Huele de Noche, a concert which Carolina Vélez Muñiz is organizing as part of the 2021 Spring Curatorial Fellowship. Samantha and Frida first came across each other at the MUTEK music festival in 2016. After some time of knowing each other, they began to collaborate. Samantha’s introduction to music began when she was a child; as she would play with TV static and an electronic organ. This brought her to become interested in noise from an early age. Frida, on the other hand, comes from a family of musicians and is active in the jazz scene in Mexico.

articleGuest UserMay 27, 2021The Quarantine Concerts, curatorial fellowship

Huele de Noche: Angelina Almukhametova

Angelina Almukhametova’s sound work started with the exploration of what inductors (electromagnetic pickups) can detect from the transformer boxes which light up neon sculptures made by her. This gave a sonic agency to the neon, as it lets Almukhametova generate sounds by experimenting with the voltage supplied to the transformer.

articleGuest UserMay 26, 2021The Quarantine Concerts, curatorial fellowship

Huele de Noche: Jada-Amina

Jada-Amina is an artist and musician who will be performing in Huele de Noche May 27. For the upcoming concert, Jada-Amina will sing a set of their own written and produced music. The set will include “(a) house is a home,” among other tracks. Learn more about their practice here.

articleOlivia JunellMay 21, 2021

Huele de Noche: Cielo Saucedo

Cielo Saucedo is an artist and writer who is making visuals for the upcoming concert Huele de Noche on May 27. For this event, Cielo is working in both 3D animation and live sound-reactive animation. Huele de Noche moves from the use of sound for protest towards the innovation of sound and music in celebration, especially in Brown and Black and Queer spaces.

articleOlivia JunellMay 20, 2021

HACER RUIDO: Luis Fernando Amaya

For the show this Friday, April 16, composer and percussionist Luis Fernando Amaya created a new soundscape. Read more about Luis’s practice here, in the final of four essays written by Curatorial Fellow, Carolina Vélez Muñiz leading up to HACER RUIDO.

articleOlivia JunellApril 14, 2021