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13/05/2026

We are thrilled to announce the new release, “Vocal Streams,” by Agustín Genoud . Today we will launch this book at 7 pm at (link in the bio)

In Vocal Streams, Agustín Genoud explores the voice as a living field. Drawing on decades of performance, workshops, and theoretical inquiry, he reimagines vocality by tracing unexpected connections between the human body and the spaces, machines, and histories that shape the voice. Blending essay, theory, autobiography, and practical exercises drawn from his Trans-Synthetic Vocal Workshops, the book follows the voice through bodily organs, resonant caves, microphones, ancestral architecture, animal songs, and AI-generated voices. Along the way, it asks where voices begin and end, how they shape the boundaries between inside and outside, and what becomes possible when we stop treating the voice as exclusively human. At once intimate and speculative, Vocal Streams is both a meditation on singing and a practical invitation to sing.

English, softcover, 14.8 x 21 cm
166 pages
ISBN 978-3-912778-00-7

Translation by: Alonso Almenara
Additional proofreading by Kirstin Cameron
Cover design and edition by Alejandra Cárdenas

13/05/2026

We are thrilled to announce the new release, “Vocal Streams,” by Agustín Genoud . Today we will launch this book at 7 pm at (link in the bio)

In Vocal Streams, Agustín Genoud explores the voice as a living field. Drawing on decades of performance, workshops, and theoretical inquiry, he reimagines vocality by tracing unexpected connections between the human body and the spaces, machines, and histories that shape the voice. Blending essay, theory, autobiography, and practical exercises drawn from his Trans-Synthetic Vocal Workshops, the book follows the voice through bodily organs, resonant caves, microphones, ancestral architecture, animal songs, and AI-generated voices. Along the way, it asks where voices begin and end, how they shape the boundaries between inside and outside, and what becomes possible when we stop treating the voice as exclusively human. At once intimate and speculative, Vocal Streams is both a meditation on singing and a practical invitation to sing.

English, softcover, 14.8 x 21 cm
166 pages
ISBN 978-3-912778-00-7
Translation by: Alonso Almenara
Additional proofreading by Kirstin Cameron
Cover design and edition by Alejandra Cárdenas

06/05/2026

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of “Vocal Streams” by Agustín Genoud
The book launch will take place next Wednesday at

Come join us!
There will be a talk with Agustín Genoud, moderated by Alejandra Cárdenas.
And a performance by Agustín Genoud. 💥

📍May 13, 7pm
daadgalerie, Oranienstraße 161 Kreuzberg, Berlin
Free admission.

In Vocal Streams, Agustín Genoud explores the voice as a living field. Drawing on decades of performance, workshops, and theoretical inquiry, he reimagines vocality by tracing unexpected connections between the human body and the spaces, machines, and histories that shape the voice. Blending essay, theory, autobiography, and practical exercises drawn from his Trans-Synthetic Vocal Workshops, the book follows the voice through bodily organs, resonant caves, microphones, ancestral architecture, animal songs, and AI-generated voices. Along the way, it asks where voices begin and end, how they shape the boundaries between inside and outside, and what becomes possible when we stop treating the voice as exclusively human. At once intimate and speculative, Vocal Streams is both a meditation on singing and a practical invitation to sing.

04/12/2025

Thank you and for this review of Switched On.

Here an excerpt (probably mistranslated):
“Within a focus period from the 1960s to the 1980s, a wide arc is drawn in terms of both content and geography: Daniela Fugellie, for example, examines the experimental radio dramas of Chilean-Jewish composer Leni Alexander (1924-2004), while Nicole L’Huillier analyzes works by Iris Sangüesa (*1933). Under the title “Sonic Scars,” Susan Campos Fonseca and Susana Sánchez Carballo highlight a number of female sound artists from Central America who found expression in >>sonic-technological

23/11/2025

No se pierdan esta presentation en Chile en de y .

- Conversación en torno al proyecto “Switched On.
The Dawn of Electronic Sound by Latinoamerican
Women”, ed. Luis Alvarado y Alejandra
Cárdenas.

Luis conversará con la investigadora Daniela Fugellie (Universidad Alberto Hurtado), una de las colaboradoras del libro.

Martes 25, 18:30 hrs. Auditorio IDEA-USACH (Román
Díaz 89, Providencia).

25/07/2025

In “Reconsidering Tapes” Mariano Rosales recounts his travels in the Andes as he confronts the challenge of determining the fate of an ethnographic sound archive he inherited. Alongside Adrián Sallo and Wilwer Vilca, Mariano they discuss ways in which these archives could return to the communities they document.

Mariano Rosales is an Argentinian musician, wind engineer and sound artist with a Master’s in Sound Studies. His work explores sound, computer music, and public space. Originally from Buenos Aires, he has performed experimental music and spent eight years in Cusco teaching and studying Andean sound practices.

Adrián Sallo Sallo is an intercultural teacher and community leader from the Fortaleza Community in Cusco, Peru. He teaches at Asociación Pukllasunchis, sharing Quechua agricultural knowledge with youth.
Wilwer Vilca is an expert in intercultural public policy and socio-environmental communication. He holds a Master’s in Human Rights and a degree in Social Communication. Vilca is also a musician with Ayarachis de Antalla, Palca, Peru

14/04/2025

presents Border-Listening / Escucha-Liminal Vol. 3 📘✨

Berlin: Join us Wednesday, April 23 for a special evening of conversation and sound in celebration of the third volume of Border-Listening / Escucha-Liminal.

🔸 Mariana Carvalho on her research “eating and digesting, me alimento de voces” — an experimental essay woven from a patchwork of voices, centered around the practice of “eating voices,” which she’s been developing since 2019.

🔸 Nicole L’Huillier on Surlógicas — a performative framework rooted in improvisation, polyphonic call-and-response, and open systems that challenge linear, hegemonic ways of thinking and being.

(Moderation by: Alejandra Cárdenas)

🔊 After the talk, enjoy a live performance by Bella Comsom, who is also a contributor to the book:

Bella Comsom is a Brazilian transdisciplinary artist and researcher working at the intersection of sound, technology, and perception. Her work investigates the materiality of sound through conceptual composition and experimental electronics, with a focus on electromagnetic fields. Using custom-built antennas, she transforms the inaudible into immersive auditory experiences across installations, audiovisual works, radio art, and live performance.

📍 Morphine Raum
Köpenicker Str. 14, Berlin
📅 Wednesday, April 23

$Bella Comson’s Antena-Oca (“Hollow Antenna”) captures electromagnetic waves through a fractal antenna inspired by the Br...$

17/02/2025

Bella Comson’s Antena-Oca (“Hollow Antenna”) captures electromagnetic waves through a fractal antenna inspired by the Brazilian Embauba tree, exploring the intersection between human and non-human cooperation in sound, echoing Lynn Margulis’s concept of symbiosis.

BELLACOMSOM (Rio de Janeiro, 1988), transdisciplinary artist and researcher, has been developing performances, installations, videos, album releases; investigating the magical and physical properties of sound, light and matter. With a Master’s degree in Music/Sonology from the University of São Paulo, she has developed technological tools for playing and listening, seeking to establish contact with nature’s imperceptible energies. Her work has taken part in festivals, events and exhibitions, including: Listening to the World: 100 Years of Radio at HKW, City as Forest at Museum of Tomorrow, Sonic Matter Festival, Toda La Teoría del Universo, Virada Sônica: a escalada do som na arte contemporânea at Farol Santander, as well as the Digital Art Biennial.

Third edition of “Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal”
(Our online shop is active again for purchasing the book, link in bio)

13/02/2025

Listening to Images in the Archive: Echoes of the Left-Out Sounds

Ekaterina Golovko proposes „listening“ to photographs collected at IFAN (Institut Fondamental de l’Afrique Noire), drawing on Tina Campt’s methodology to emphasize silence and incompleteness as intrinsic to archival systems shaped by colonial knowledge production. She then goes on to advocate for alternative ways of thinking about archiving sound, exploring how repetition and echo in oral practices in West Africa can facilitate the diffusion, preservation, and transmission of knowledge through sound.

EKATERINA GOLOVKO is a Russian-born researcher, writer, and photographer living between Dakar and Bologna. Her practice focuses on writing and photography, exploring themes related to ethnographic museums, alternative archives, oral culture, and epistemic violence. She has published texts in NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, The February Journal, and has written on commission for the Center for Experimental Museology, among others. Her photography has been featured in Fotofilmic JRNL 15 and NEA Magazine. In 2022, she exhibited her photographic work during the Dak’Art Biennale at the Hôtel de Ville de Dakar. In 2024, the Italian photo publisher Editrice Quinlan published her monograph “Dakar” in the “20x24” collection.

Third edition of “Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal”
(Our online shop is active again for purchasing the book, link in bio)

27/12/2024

Radio Alhara and The Question of Funding: Infrastructure as an Art Practice, and Listening Through Communal Media

A conversation with Yazan Khalili

In this conversation, Yazan Khalili explores the intersection of infrastructure and artistic practice, emphasizing the urgency of rethinking the frameworks that underpin cultural and artistic production. Through initiatives like The Question of Funding and Radio Alhara, Khalili highlights the need to reclaim agency over the platforms and infrastructures. His practice is informed by a critical approach to donor economies, examining how funding mechanisms exert political influence, taking as a departure point the Palestinian context, and advocating for alternative systems rooted in communal exchange and trust. Khalili frames infrastructure itself as an artistic practice, a dynamic space for reimagining the relationship between economy, community, and culture.

Yazan Khalili is a visual artist, architect, and cultural activist. Khalili operates in and out of Palestine and is currently based in Amsterdam, where he is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam. His work has been featured in major exhibitions, including Documenta Fifteen (2022), MoMA’s New Photography (2018), and the Sharjah Biennial (2013). He was the artistic director of Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, and co-founded Radio Alhara in 2020 and The Question of Funding collective in 2019.

New edition of “Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal”
(Link in the bio)

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