em guide the voices that wait
This essay explores my encounter with the archive of Chile al día, a broadcast transmitted from Radio Berlin International in the GDR between 1973 and 1990, during the same period as Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile. I visited the Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv in Babelsberg, where this archive resides, six times between 28 August and 18 October 2024. Those visits involved me with it on different levels, whereas my listening practice was affected as I opened myself up to an aesthetic of resonance (Friz, 2009). From my listening experience, I shift the definition of this archive as such, presenting it rather as a radio show capable of creating an elsewhere from the sonic.
em guide “el pueblo, el pueblo, el pueblo ¿dónde está?” estallido social and co-listening to sound (noise) archives
This text reflects on the sonic dimensions of Chile’s Estallido Social, where noise served as a tool of resistance. Drawing on Attali’s concept of noise as a disruptor, it explores how sonic practices like “cacerolazos” and chants challenged the order and redefined public space. Chattopadhyay’s idea of co-listening frames these sounds as collective and political acts that foster communal engagement, while co-listening to sound archives from this period also evokes the creative potential of noise, allowing it to resonate across memories, territories and disputes, imagining other (new) realities.
besuch bei adrian laugsch
Adrian Laugsch ist einer von zwei Residenzkomponisten der Gesellschaft für Neue Musik Ruhr. In diesem Zeitraum arbeitet er 10 Tage in der Neue Musik Zentrale am Viehofer Platz in Essen und schreibt ein neues Instrumentalwerk. Für die NOIES öffnet er für einen Tag die Tore der NMZentrale und zeigt seinen Arbeitsprozess.
