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sound archive
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In Chile, there was a huge social outburst from October 2019 until March 2020, where huge amounts of people went out to the streets to demand social justice. In that scenario, and in addition to artistic and political demonstrations in the public space, noise was the main character. Chile was under curfew and —at the beginning of the conflict— every day there were strikes, protests and serious conflicts with the police. Then, Fridays started to be the day to protest in the main square in Santiago: the recently named “Plaza Dignidad” (Dignity Square).
“Sonidos de la Revuelta” is a sound archive that contains soundscapes of that period, being capable of transporting us to those days, where momentum, passion, struggle and communion were in the ambient, beside angry shouts and lamentations for the unfair future for the people, who were demanding justice and dignity. Almost every sound was recorded near Plaza Dignidad in Santiago, Chile. The experience itself was recorded from the first days of spontaneous sounds and the political chants that became daily every Friday. Soundscapes and sound passages were documented, without cuts or shooting plan, without a method or perspective.
That’s how this sound archive was made at the first moment, to then become one divided into three listening categories, defined as a curatorial exercise considering its sociocultural content, intending to describe the context of that period: PROTEST – REPRESSION – PUBLIC SPACE.
This project was created collectively by Radio Pasajes, a collective that I am co-founder and member.Â
In 2021, the archive became a sound installation, comissioned by Tsonami Arte Sonoro. It was exhibited at the “Museo Sonoro de la Revuelta” (Sound Museum of the Revolt) at Parque Cultural de Valparapiso, along other projects that were showing their sound experience during the social outburst; some archives and various creative works related to Chilean Social Outburns in 2019. Later on, the installation has since been permanently displayed at the Museo del Estallido Social.