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The investigation is based on oral history - [On Temperament and Tempering](https://www.contingentsounds.com/on-temperament-and-tempering/) - By REIKO YAMADA As a composer from Japan trained in the Western musical tradition, I sometimes have uneasy feelings about composing music in European styles. At the same time, I am also uncomfortable with the appropriation and exploitation of Asian cultural traditions, such as the traditional tuning systems (for example, Raga in Classical Indian - [Noise Vivarium: Spectral Radicalism](https://www.contingentsounds.com/noise-vivarium-spectral-radicalism/) - By D’ANDRADE Introduction A spectrogram is a visual representation of the frequency spectrum of a signal that varies with time. While there is much scientific material written about spectral studies in relation to sound, this article intends to focus on the spectral aspects of sound and how, by using digital media, we can achieve a - [Foreword](https://www.contingentsounds.com/introduction-2/) - Foreword to Vol.1 of Border-Listening/Escucha-LiminalALEJANDRA CÁRDENAS PACHECO The first volume of this publication (2020) made the creation of a second volume urgent (as the second has recently paved the way for a third), because it proposes a challenge that does not exhaust itself but that constantly raises new questions. Furthermore, in the past two years, during - [The Land of Thunder and Lightning Energy and Colonial Footprint](https://www.contingentsounds.com/the-land-of-thunder-and-lightning-energy-and-colonial-footprint/) - Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal 2020DANIELA MEDINA POCHThe Land of Thunder and Lightning Energy and Colonial Footprint Download PDFDaniela Medina Poch is an artist and writer, currently part of the MA Kunst im Kontext program at the Universität der Kunst, Berlin. Through site-specific, research-based work, her practice explores the notion of debordering and de-othering. Through grassroot experiments, Medina Poch investigates the - [Territorializing from within protocolos [en tránsito] para atender lo de adentro](https://www.contingentsounds.com/territorializing-from-within-protocolos-en-transito-para-atender-lo-de-adentro/) - Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal 2020ALEYDA ROCHA SEPULVEDATerritorializing from within protocolos [en tránsito] para atender lo de adentro Download PDFAleyda Rocha is an artist and researcher interested in exploring and evincing the everyday practices of extractivism of data, bodies, experiences intrinsically linked with colonialism and the colonial project. Rocha is currently a scientific researcher in the Department of Digital Humanities in - [Studio sounds: digital tools and technocolonialism](https://www.contingentsounds.com/studio-sounds-digital-tools-and-technocolonialism/) - Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal 2020JOSÉ CLÁUDIO S. CASTANHEIRAStudio sounds: digital tools and technocolonialism Download PDFJosé Cláudio Siqueira Castanheira is professor in the Film Program at Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and leader of the research group GEIST/UFSC (Group of Research on Images, Sonorities and Technologies) – CNPq. He is researcher in the areas of digital culture, music, sound studies - [Sentidos fugitivos, escucha, costa, legibilidad](https://www.contingentsounds.com/sentidos-fugitivos-escucha-costa-legibilidad/) - Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal 2020CARLOS COLMENARES GILSentidos fugitivosEscucha, Costa, Legibilidad Download PDFCarlos Colmenares Gil (Los Teques, Venezuela) es candidato doctoral en Literatura Comparada por la University of California – Irvine. Tiene una licenciatura en Psicología por la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello en Caracas y una maestría en Filosofía y Teoría Crítica por Kingston University en Londres. Sus áreas de investigación - [Let The (Techno) Sculpture Speak Machines and Orality in Recent Peruvian Sound Art](https://www.contingentsounds.com/let-the-techno-sculpture-speak-machines-and-orality-in-recent-peruvian-sound-art/) - Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal 2020LUIS ALVARADOLet The (Techno) Sculpture SpeakMachines and Orality in Recent Peruvian Sound Art Download PDFLuis Alvarado (Lima, 1980) studied Audiovisual Communication at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. An independent curator and researcher with a focus on the relationships between art and sound, and experimental music, Alvarado is also a poet and sound artist and has developed various - [Introduction](https://www.contingentsounds.com/introduction/) - Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal 2020ALEJANDRA LUCIANA CÁRDENASIntroduction Download PDFOur world is marked by wounded borders. Some of us have occasionally experienced an illusion of having crossed to a different territory—physically or mentally—only to later realize we were still inhabiting the borderlands. To paraphrase Gloria Anzaldúa, we carry “home” on our backs wherever we go, and with that “home” we carry - [Forbidden Music, Forbidden Jukeboxes: Listening Anxieties and the Hyper-amplification of Violence in Rio de Janeiro](https://www.contingentsounds.com/forbidden-music-forbidden-jukeboxes-listening-anxieties-and-the-hyper-amplification-of-violence-in-rio-de-janeiro/) - Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal 2020PEDRO J S VIEIRA DE OLIVEIRAForbidden Music, Forbidden JukeboxesListening Anxieties and the Hyper-amplification of Violence in Rio de Janeiro Download PDFDr. Pedro J S Vieira de Oliveira is a Brazilian researcher, sound artist, and educator working with the (colonial) articulations of sound and listening in the policing of border and urban spaces. He holds a PhD - [Ethnomedia as resistance Indigenous Protagonism in Brazil](https://www.contingentsounds.com/ethnomedia-as-resistance-indigenous-protagonism-in-brazil/) - Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal 2020LOUISE M. HISAYASUEthnomedia as resistance Indigenous Protagonism in Brazil Download PDFLouise M. Hisayasu is an independent researcher and events coordinator based between Sāo Paulo and Berlin. The research for her master’s degree focused on Indigenous protagonism in Brazil, studying the movement through the lens of technology, media and culture production. Her work is primarily interested in - [Decolonial Listening Sonorous Bodies and the Urban unconscious in Mexico City](https://www.contingentsounds.com/decolonial-listening-sonorous-bodies-and-the-urban-unconscious-in-mexico-city/) - Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal 2020DONOVAN ADRIÁN HERNÁNDEZ CASTELLANOS, RODRIGO TORODecolonial ListeningSonorous Bodies and the Urban unconscious in Mexico City Download PDFDonovan Adrián Hernández Castellanos has a PhD in Philosophy from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and carried out postdoctoral work on postcolonial studies at Universidad Autónoma de México (UAM-X). He is the author of three books, the most recent - [Cannibalistic Vocalities. Post-human Vocal Politics](https://www.contingentsounds.com/cannibalistic-vocalities-post-human-vocal-politics/) - Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal 2020AGUSTÍN GENOUDCannibalistic Vocalities. Post-human Vocal Politics Download PDFAgustín Genoud works as a performer, musician and scholar in the fields of contemporary voice, post-humanism & new materialisms. A teacher and researcher at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Genoud builds algorithms and vocal techniques that expand and transform vocal sound production. Agustín Genoud currently holds a fellowship - [Sonic Cartography in the Rímac Watershed: On the Contemporaneity of a Pre-Columbian Acoustic Ecology](https://www.contingentsounds.com/sonic-cartography-in-the-rimac-watershed-on-the-contemporaneity-of-a-pre-columbian-acoustic-ecology/) - Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal 2021 VERED ENGELHARD Sonic Cartography in the Rímac Watershed: On the Contemporaneity of a Pre-Columbian Acoustic Ecology Download PDF Vered Engelhard is a Peruvian artist and scholar based in New York. Their research centers on acoustic ecologies and Pre-Columbian imaginaries, instruments and infrastructures. Utilizing portable instruments like flutes, pututos, shakers, chimes and recorders, - [Resounding Epistemologies of Conflict: Auralities in Colombia’s Historical Memory](https://www.contingentsounds.com/resounding-epistemologies-of-conflict-auralities-in-colombias-historical-memory/) - Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal 2021 ANA RUIZ VALENCIA Resounding Epistemologies of Conflict: Auralities in Colombia’s Historical Memory Download PDF Ana Ruiz Valencia is a Colombian curator, musician and researcher, interested in contemporary artistic practices, particularly those related to aural culture, philosophy and politics of sound. As a violinist, her work focuses on experimental music and improvisation, frequently collaborating - [Indigenous and Anticapitalist Sounds: Musical Practices to Pollinate the Brazilian Caatinga](https://www.contingentsounds.com/indigenous-and-anticapitalist-sounds-musical-practices-to-pollinate-the-brazilian-caatinga/) - Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal 2021 ALEXANDRE HERBETTA Indigenous and Anticapitalist Sounds: Musical Practices to Pollinate the Brazilian Caatinga Download PDF Alexandre Herbetta is an associate professor of Social Anthropology and works at the Takinahaky Center for Indigenous Higher Education and the Postgraduate Studies in Social Anthropology of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG). A researcher at the Center for - [An Amplified Echo, a Carbonated Resonance](https://www.contingentsounds.com/an-amplified-echo-a-carbonated-resonance/) - Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal 2021 DANIELA AVELLAR An Amplified Echo, a Carbonated Resonance Download PDF Daniela Avellar is a researcher, writer and DJ based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She graduated in Psychology before gaining a master’s degree in Contemporary Studies of the Arts at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. Currently, a member of the doctorate program in Media and - [¿Un arte sonoro menor?: Dosis de escucha (2018) y El aula de los ruidos (2019)](https://www.contingentsounds.com/un-arte-sonoro-menor-dosis-de-escucha-2018-y-el-aula-de-los-ruidos-2019/) - Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal 2021 NORA CASTREJÓN, FABIÁN AVILA ELIZALDE ¿Un arte sonoro menor?: Dosis de escucha (2018) y El aula de los ruidos (2019) Download PDF Nora Castrejón es actriz, productora y gestora cultural. Cursó la Licenciatura en Literatura Dramática y Teatro en la UNAM. Ha colaborado con compañías y creadores de teatro, danza y artes circenses de - [Auralidades de mundos heridos](https://www.contingentsounds.com/auralidades-de-mundos-heridos/) - Border-Listening/Escucha-Liminal 2020SUSAN CAMPOS FONSECAAuralidades de mundos heridos Download PDFSusan Campos Fonseca, PhD. Profesora e investigadora de la Universidad de Costa Rica – UCR. Musicóloga y compositora, especialista en estudios sonoros decoloniales, y estudios transfeministas de la cultura y la tecnología. Artista del sello neoyorkino Irreverence Group Music. Web oficial: www.susancamposfonseca.netIntroducción En este ensayo deseo compartir algunas inquietudes ## Pages - [Home](https://www.contingentsounds.com/) - Contingent Sounds is a Berlin-based publishing platform with a focus on sound and listening. Founded in 2020, the project first emerged within the framework of the festival Radical Sounds Latin America and it has now a life of its own. Contingent Sounds aims to facilitate critical discourses, artistic research and experimental formats, especially proposals situated at the margins of the hegemonic discourses, or with strong social and ecological commitments. - [About](https://www.contingentsounds.com/about-us/) - Contingent Sounds is an independent publishing platform based in Berlin that aims to facilitate artists' research and practices in the field of sound. Our work centers on the socio-political dimensions of listening and the exploration of experimental approaches to theory, design, and publishing. 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