Feminist Sonographies and Decolonial Listening

A Kind of Harmony explores sound in the context of its social, political, and environmental implications. This series of immersive conversations investigates the ways that sound and listening can shape and inform our daily interactions.

The first 45 minutes of the experience were dedicated to an immersive interview with the guest, followed by a sound piece they created. Amanda Gutierréz is an artist and researcher who uses sound and performance art to investigate how aural conditions affect everyday life. She describes her soundwalking practice from a decolonial and feminist approach and shares how oral history, recording and producing sound can offer the potential to take back and to resist.

Amanda’s soundpiece retraces her grandmother’s steps while in dialogue about indigenous traditions of rootness and her ancestors’ migration experience.

This immersive sound piece was presented at

Habitat Sonore at PHI Center in Montreal as Part of A Kind of Harmony Series