BOGOTÁ XOXO
Canina is a promise of the city of Bogotá, Colombia. Acting on this promise, she delivers a track that contains multiple sounds, noises, and expressions of what Bogotá means to her. As part of a renewed cultural wave of communities occupying clubs and itinerant venues, she proposes a reflection of sounds and bodies through it.
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Think of life as an orchestra whose array of stimuli overwhelms us. Induced by our hectic pace of life, these stimuli often bring our senses to saturation point. Consequently, our lack of attention causes us to ignore the numerous harmonies produced by our environment. This project considers these semi-conscious universes that emerge from the tangle of noise that surrounds us and of which we are a part.
«BOGOTÁ XOXO» is a sonorous interpretation of this hellishly chaotic, accelerated, and noisy city. For the realization of this track, I chose to make audible several sounds that, sunk in the inarticulate chaos of Bogotá, become noise. Among them, I highlight alarms, horns, and sirens, as well as the voices of street vendors and birds at dawn, acoustic traces of the city. Once recorded, I chose to transform, sample, and arrange these sounds, so as to add melodies and percussions to an amalgam of hardcore kicks, added to accelerated guaracha and reggaetón basses.
The intention of this sonorous interpretation is not to capture in order to fix or freeze that which it explores, since sonorous memory is ephemeral, volatile, and fragile, but rather to intensify the very flows of life in which it unfolds, creating territories and memories as the sounds resonate into the listening bodies.
Canina es una promesa de Bogotá, Colombia. En esta entrega nos ofrece una pista que contiene múltiples sonidos, ruidos y expresiones de lo que la ciudad significa para ella. Como parte de una ola cultural renovada de comunidades que ocupan clubes y espacios itinerantes, propone una reflexión de sonidos y cuerpos a través de ella.
Pensemos en la vida como una orquesta cuyo despliegue de estímulos nos sobrepasa. Inducidos por nuestro estrepitoso ritmo de vida, dichos estímulos suelen llevar nuestros sentidos a su punto de saturación. Por consecuencia, nuestra falta de atención nos hace ignorar las numerosas armonías que produce nuestro entorno. Este proyecto considera esos universos semi-inconscientes que surgen de la maraña de ruido que nos rodea y de la que somos parte.
«BOGOTÁ XOXO» es una interpretación sonora de esta ciudad infernalmente caótica, acelerada y ruidosa. Para la realización de esté track, opté por hacer audibles varios sonidos que, hundidos en el inarticulado caos bogotano, se transforman en ruido. Entre ellos destaco alarmas, pitos y sirenas, además de vocales de vendedores ambulantes y los pájaros al amanecer, huellas acústicas de la ciudad. Una vez grabados, elegí transformar, samplear y ordenar estos sonidos, de manera que añadieran melodías y percusiones a una amalgama de kicks de hardcore, sumado a bajos acelerados de guaracha y reggaetón.
La intención de esta interpretación sonora no consiste en captar para fijar o congelar aquello que explora, pues la memoria sonora es efímera, volátil y frágil, sino que se dispone a intensificar los propios flujos de vida en los que se desenvuelve, creando territorios y memorias a medida que los sonidos resuenan en los cuerpos escuchas.
This track is part of the virtual exhibition «Norient City Sounds: Bogotá», curated and edited by Luisa Uribe.
Biography
Canina (Camila Vargas) is a Colombian artist based in Bogotá, D.C. In her creative work, she explores experimentation with social semiotics and visual dialectics, where the selection, re-composition, and editing of images and sounds are seen as poetic, artistic, and political material. Currently, she also works as a DJ and producer of Latin electronic rhythms. Follow her on Instagram, Linktree, or SoundCloud.
Published on August 22, 2024
Last updated on August 30, 2024