www.laeradelruido.com
La era del ruido is an attempt at capturing two semi-structured improvisations on themes of political presence, absence, and erasure. Historically, Latinoamérica has occupied a non-place within the anglophone North American imaginary: it is often rendered a zone of transience and primitivity, antithetical to full political agency or subjectivity, mutually constituted with the neocolonial consumption of deterritorialized and violently homogenized Latinx cultural expressions. Refracted through lenses of commodification and mass production, we are fragmented, heard, and tasted—"experienced"—through a paradigm that systematically disembodies us, extracts economically viable resources, and then discards us as the detritus of late-stage capitalism.
We offer a maroon remedy: our performance attempts to enact a fugitive enfleshment of Latinidad through sympathetic bodily vibration and co-presence. In mobilizing the haptic qualities of sound at high volumes and long durations, we hope to make felt our presence and the presences of our ancestors. In disassembling intersubjective boundaries through shared embodied experience, we can begin to reimagine the exclusive category of man entirely.
Sergio Cote Barco: no-input mixer, laptop, voice, guitar
Juan Carlos Melendez-Torres: guitar, pedals, synthesizers
La era del ruido is an attempt at capturing two semi-structured improvisations on themes of political presence, absence, and erasure. Historically, Latinoamérica has occupied a non-place within the anglophone North American imaginary: it is often rendered a zone of transience and primitivity, antithetical to full political agency or subjectivity, mutually constituted with the neocolonial consumption of deterritorialized and violently homogenized Latinx cultural expressions. Refracted through lenses of commodification and mass production, we are fragmented, heard, and tasted—"experienced"—through a paradigm that systematically disembodies us, extracts economically viable resources, and then discards us as the detritus of late-stage capitalism.
We offer a maroon remedy: our performance attempts to enact a fugitive enfleshment of Latinidad through sympathetic bodily vibration and co-presence. In mobilizing the haptic qualities of sound at high volumes and long durations, we hope to make felt our presence and the presences of our ancestors. In disassembling intersubjective boundaries through shared embodied experience, we can begin to reimagine the exclusive category of man entirely.
Sergio Cote Barco: no-input mixer, laptop, voice, guitar
Juan Carlos Melendez-Torres: guitar, pedals, synthesizers
