This project is an exploration of sound identities and community aurality, through field recording as an emancipatory exercise of listening, sound memory and collectivity. Carried out in the municipality of Tlayacapan, Morelos, this project arises as a proposal to integrate the sounds of the community into different initiatives and projects of the local environmental committee. Among the objectives of the project is the development of integration and participation activities such as sound walks, workshops, presentations and collective creation, managed from an ethnographic methodology that weighs qualitative and sensorial analysis. These actions seek to promote environmental awareness and sensitization towards concrete actions.
The appropriation of the project by community members has been essential; some of the activities have been proposed and managed directly by them. It is a space for collaboration and channeling both the activities and the documentary materials for autonomous purposes. Field recording is conceived not as a passive and contemplative exercise, but as an act of social production and creation. These recordings form a local sound archive, created through multiple related listening sessions by and for the community. The community has access to and authority over the archive, allowing it to be used in various artistic productions, as well as educational and research projects.
Program:
Day 1 (June 23, 2024): Sound walk to the Tlatoani hill and introductory talk.
Day 2 (July 13, 2024): Recording of Morelos corridos.
Day 3 (July 14, 2024): Sound postcard workshop with the youth patrol (patrulla juvenil).
Day 4 (July 28, 2024): Recording of the sound postcards with the youth patrol (patrulla juvenil).
Day 5 (August 12, 2024): Sound walk. San José to Amatlán route.
Day 6 (August 19, 2024): Sound walk. Cerro de las Cruces route.
Day 7 (October 6, 2024): Sound walk in San José de los Laureles.
Day 8 (October 27, 2024): Mapping of “jagüeyes” (ponds).
Day 9 (December 1, 2024): Workshop “Dialogues with Flora” and presentation of sound postcards.
