Against Sexist Violence in Soundtest
México / Canadá / Italia / Francia /Berlin
2021 – 2022
“FRIEND, come to Fuck the soundcheck! This is a shared space for women and no binary genders who wish to learn in the company of other women to install and test the sound setup for their concert.“
The world of audio, recording, and sound design, at the intersection of music and electronics, has largely been dominated by men and capitalist companies building and selling equipment. Women and people of no binary genders are being discriminated against, harassed, being mansplained to, and their knowledge is belittled and not taken seriously. The dreaded sound check has become a place where these behaviours towards women and musicians of other genders are normalized. While music festivals are bragging about achieving parity in their lineup, artists are still being looked upon by old school sound technicians, who often view their know-how as a well-kept secret that helps them evade precarity. The sound check should be a learning experience, not a time-consuming, draining, or uncomfortable one!
Fuck the sound check! is a space safe from sexist violence, where women and non binary genders can share knowledge about audio, sound design, recording, and musical experimentation.
Are you tired that every time you go to play you feel attacked or underestimated by the soundman?
Don’t you want to be harassed or intimidated before your concert? Are you starting your sound project and have you never connected to a P.A?
Do you want to learn how to use a professional mixer to have control of your sound test?
Do you want to learn how to handle the mixer creatively, assemble or repair your own audio cables?
FRIEND, come to Fuck the soundcheck! This is a shared space for women and no binary genders who wish to learn in the company of other women to install and test the sound setup for their concert.
Do not be afraid, this is a space free of sexist violence. Bring your electronic instruments, cables, mixer, microphones and whatever you have to play, share and clear your doubts about audio strings and sound systems.
We will end our day with a jam session among all that will be broadcast on the radio and recorded on cassette. yeaaahhh
Do not stay out come make noise with us!
1º Performance
Nicol Rivera and Corazón de Robota
FUTURE_fluids is a galactic poem, to reassure our faith in the becoming of the waters as an original rhizome.
We will reconnect with an ancient encrypted open source message of this liquid cosmic materiality, receiver and projector of all the histories of humanity. An electric spirituality and divine energy that will hold us in this experience.
We will speak to her with deep love in this decolonial technofeminist poem and sound liquid ritual, in order to release what is stagnant to her molecules and return her to her ancestral flow.
The future is in the water, it is wet, eco-erotic and cyborg fluids.
2º Performance
Lia García (La Novia Sirena) and Yela Quim 30.08.22
Lia Sirena es una artista y activista trans mexicana quien desde el año 2011 propone que mediante la ternura radical nuestros cuerpos se encuentren y sanen a través de la política feminista de los afectos y los cuidados.
Combinando su voz, el tacto y una crítica a la colonización que encierra nuestras emociones Lia nos sumergirá en su ritual “Hundirse es hacerse profunda” junto al showcase de la rapera colombiana Yela Quim.
[…] hablar desde los abismos, renacer, surgir, ofrendar la voz trans[…] Con este ritual-performance, transitaremos juntxs a la superficie de nuestras heridas para invocar la cura con ternura radical y afectividad. Un canto colectivo por la justicia de nuestros corazones, territorios y cuerpos.. cuerpos…. Cuerpos.
Nada sin la piel.
3º Performance
Guided by Care 20.05.2023
Care (they/them) is a black trans non-binary trauma-informed care practitioner, transformative justice & eco-somatic practitioner, artist and doula, whose work focuses on re-membering somatics experiences of awe, connection, miracles and care.
4º Performance
Eli Wewentxu [CL] 04.08.23
Eli Wewentxu, mapuche artist from Gulumapu. He works with musical composition, sound art, video art and performance. His research focuses on finding new ways of making music, re meaning sound and listening from a critique of the Eurocentric western academy, turning it into something identitary linked to his cultural heritage.
5º Performance
Pacha queer [EC] 12.08.23
6º Performance
Anal.Fabets 14.08.23
ANAL.FABETS is a Berlin based queer collective experimenting live noise/y anal/og pleasure with dark pink machines moaning loops on tapes and poetry of free improvisation through genre/less electronics for riot queer bodies without organs or alphabets.
We are the music vandals phagocytizing copyrights and plagiarism.
Our instruments of discipline and pleasure are vocal chords, tape recorders, vinyl records on wrong speed, modular synths and amplified objects, hybridized with live visuals and still life scenographies.
7º Performance
Alina Maldonado [MX] and Barbara Lázara [MX] 4.08.2023
Alina y Barbara has been improvising toghether since 2021, merging their languages and interests in queer solidarity and embodied music to dialogue and colaborate.
In the context of Water Futures, this collaborative project aims to connect with the water environment, creating a conversation that allows both musicians to fuse with the fluid element, giving rise to a third voice.
Alina Maldonado, 1989. Violinist, composer, and performer whose work intertwines electroacoustic composition, free improvisation, sound design, and sound installation. As a violinist, she explores traditional and extended techniques in combination with electronics to create rich texture and noise. Questioning herself about her classical training as a musician and delving into sensations, identity, and the limits of musical language, her work pursues a nomadic aesthetic where improvisation has a relevant role. She is active in Mexico City’s experimental music scene and is constantly collaborating with other disciplines that inspire her music-making. nd in 2021 was nominated for “Best Sound Design” in The Metropolitan Theater Awards.
She is currently a candidate for a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at Bard College.
Barbara Lázara. Artist, performer and researcher devoted to tracing and amplifying subjugated language, archives of the body, and stolen memories. Her work often revolves around themes of illness, the affected and deceased voice, abnormality, and the silenced voice – an exploration that goes beyond the musical and becomes explicitly sonorous and physical, playing with the interplay of spatial and corporeal resonances; she delves into the moments before and after speech, linking its possibility of expression to the reflection of the unsaid.
Lázara has been granted the fellowship of the DAAD BKP 2022/23, Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (MX) 2019/22 and Iberescena in 2017. Her participation at group shows include Modos de oír (Museo Ex Teresa, 2019), The Listening Bienal (2020) and Social Acoustics (Errant Sound, 2017).
We are the music vandals phagocytizing copyrights and plagiarism.
Our instruments of discipline and pleasure are vocal chords, tape recorders, vinyl records on wrong speed, modular synths and amplified objects, hybridized with live visuals and still life scenographies.
