LLAMADO DE GUERRA - ARCHIVO SONORO DEL CONFLICTO

War Call: Sound Archive of Conflict is a project that compiles and experiments with a sound archive of political events where audio recording and radio transmission have played an important role in the development of conflicts in Latin America. Such archive gathers sound documents from different countries that contain the story of a series of events together with the sonorous circumstance of the voice that narrates them.

Since 2018, the project has carried out radio programs, performances, publications and workshops where sound reenactments of the audios are performed with the objective of developing a listening practice that investigates the particularities, similarities and patterns of the discursive strategies used by political agents during those conflicts.

The archives investigated come from conflicts in the Latin American continent where radio broadcasting and media in general were used by the warring sides to disseminate reports and communiqués through which they called the population to their causes.

The project conceives radio broadcasting as a broad place for sound exploration and political action where the events in Latin America are re-signified. Through the languages and possibilities of radiophony new events are produced, an event only occurs when it is narrated, transmitted and listened to, and in conflicts the way in which the event was broadcast determines its intensity, making a listener become involved in what happened when his or her body is affected.

ARCHIVO

1. Segmentos del Conflicto Amazónico entre Colombia y Perú -- (Colombia,1932).
2. Toma de la Radiodifusora Nacional durante el Bogotazo ------- (Colombia,1948).
3. El último aldabonazo de Eduardo Chibas -------------------------------- (Cuba,1951).
4. Operación Radio Sarandi del MLN Tupamaros --------------------- (Uruguay,1968).
5. Radiotransmisión del secuestro al embajador Clinton E. Knox -------(Haiti,1973).
6. Testimonio fonografico del Golpe de Estado a Allende --------------- (Chile,1973).
7. Guitarra Armada, LP de Luis Enrique y Carlos Godoy --------- (Nicaragua,1979).
8. Comunicados en el conflicto del triangulo Ixil ------------------- (Guatemala,1981).
9. Comunicados de la Guerra de las Malvinas ----------------------  (Argentina,1982).
10. Operación Caballo de Troya --------------------------------------------(Salvador,1983).
11. Transmisión del Asalto al Palacio de Justicia --------------------- (Colombia,1985).
12. Comunicado de Guerra de la Selva Lacandona -------------------- (Mexico,1994).
13. Entrevista radial sobre la Guerra Urbana Comuna 13 --------- (Colombia, 2001).

RECREACIÓN SONORA

The sound practice of the project is based on the realization of reenactments or “reenactments” of its sound archives. In this way, the socio-political contexts of the documents and the sonorous materiality of their records are explored, thinking about the different layers of meaning that sound adds to these messages.

The experimentation with the archive has the objective of making new versions of the sound documents where there is more emphasis on the procedures, that is to say, the methodology and experiences during the “reenactment”.

Thus, through this practice, deep listening of the archives, transcription of the audios, the production of scripts with sound notations and the creation of radio-fiction formats, and staging of events in radio programs and performances are carried out.

PROGRAMAS RADIALES

The development of a sound practice has involved the development of radio programs where the archives are recreated and an analysis of the role of radio in each event is made through the creation of a radio fiction. 

An example of this was produced during the CKWEB Grant for radio projects 2019 of the Instituto Distrital de las Artes, where three radio programs were produced about three events that occurred in Colombia:

For the production of each of these programs, documents were consulted in libraries, sound libraries and documentation center of the city of Bogota.

The programs feature the voices of: Samuel Morales, Nelsón Sanchez, Laura Bernal, Camilo Torres, Ana Lucia Romero, Lucía González, Julián Alvarez and Laura Wiesner.

GUIONES, LIBROS Y PUBLICACIONES

PUESTAS RADIALES EN VIVO

La Transmisión del Asalto
Performers: Samuel Morales, Angela Marciales, Nelson Sanchez, Camilo Torres y Esteban Ferro
Puesta radial en vivo durante lanzamiento de libro arte
Galeria Espacio el Dorado, Bogotá
Octubre 2021

TALLERES Y LABORATORIOS 

PIEZAS 

Medellín, Colombia, 2002. Se están librando intensos combates en la Comuna 13, subiendo el occidente de la ciudad. Milicias urbanas de la guerrilla de las FARC se enfrentan al ejército colombiano y a los paramilitares creando el escenario de una intensa guerra urbana. La situación en la comuna es discutida en un programa de la Deutsche Radio Internacional, la cual llama por teléfono a una testigo de los eventos para que comparta su perspectiva y experiencias con la audiencia.

Este es un programa radial dónde se recrea una llamada telefónica emitida por una emisora local de Medellín, durante las operaciones militares realizadas en la Comuna 13 en el 2002. Este relato de no ficción expone el estado del conflicto colombiano a comienzos de milenio y su percepción a través de los medios.



Piezas producida durante la  residencia de radio_art__weimar en 2023 , el programa cuenta con las voces de Ana Vallejo @anavallejoc y Thai Tai Pham @hokus.kokus , y la ayuda en la grabación de @laura_anh_.

ZONA DE DESGASTE 2020