Binaural Radio Rural
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Episode no. 24: Recordings are not to blame: Ancestral pulse

The Binaural Radio Rural podcast commissioned a series of three episodes to Uruguayan anthropologist and sound artist Ana Rodríguez, suggesting a simple challenge: to use archive sound recordings, especially those that have never been included before in processes of creation and diffusion.

This series of episodes entitled “The recordings are not to blame” is therefore an attempt to do justice through creation with field recordings made in Portugal, Uruguay, Brazil and Spain, which have remained unpublished due to communication problems, misunderstandings or simply lack of time, space or listening.

Each chapter of this series relives records that deserve not to be forgotten, which have been lovingly wrapped up in archive recordings, introspection processes and sound narratives.

For the second episode of the series “The recordings are not to blame”, Ana Rodríguez writes:

“If we are never the same river, how does it change us so much to listen again to what we recorded in previous waters of our lives? In this chapter we worked from a dream that brought messages of integration. Integration of bodily data, heart hang-ups, fears and guilt. What we did instinctively turned out to be a remedy for digesting the fact that we are carriers of cosmic antennae. Each person must orient their own in order to perceive with greater clarity the messages they might receive”.
This episode includes field recordings made in September 2019 by teacher Cristina Gonçalves with students from the João André Figueira Rural School, during the Farroupilha Festival, in the context of the project “Shared Field: Transrurality and media”, a partnership between Mapa Sonoro de Uruguay and Binaural Nodar.

It also includes recordings made by Ana Rodríguez in Trinta y Tres, Montevideo and Tacuarembó, Uruguay, and in the villages of Oliveira and Sequeiros, Portugal.

Introduction sound piece: Excerpt from “Thermal sound immersion”, composed by Rui Costa.

Binaural Nodar is a cultural organization supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture | Directorate-General for the Arts.