Switched On: The Dawn of Electronic Sound by Latin American Women


Published by:
Contingent Sounds
The official history of 20th-century avant-garde electronic music has been predominantly narrated from the point of view of Anglo-American and Western European experiences and largely remained focused on its male protagonists. To destabilize this history, this editorial project presents a collection of perspectives, essays, interviews, archival photos, and work reviews centered on the early electronic music production by Latin American female creators, who were active from the 1960s to the 1980s. The book also brings us closer to the work of a new generation of researchers who have focused on offering a non-canonical reading of the history of music and technology in Latin America. The publication is the record of a new vision, an account of the condition of being a woman in the field of music technology at a time when this was a predominantly masculine domain.
The book has been edited by independent curator, researcher and label head of Buh Records, Luis Alvarado, and experimental musician, multimedia artist and researcher Alejandra Cárdenas (also known as Ale Hop). Composers and sound artists featured in this historical account include: Alicia Urreta, Beatriz Ferreyra, Elsa Justel, Eulalia Bernard, Graciela Castillo, Hilda Dianda, Ileana Pérez Velázquez, Irina Escalante Chernova, Iris Sangüesa, Jacqueline Nova, Jocy de Oliveira, Leni Alexander, Margarita Paksa, Marietta Veulens, Mónica O'Reilly Viamontes, Nelly Moretto, Oksana Linde, Patricia Belli, Renée Pietrafesa Bonnet, Rocío Sanz Quirós, Teresa Burga, Vania Dantas Leite, among others.

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ARCHIVIO #10 / THE DESIGN ISSUE


In this new issue of ARCHIVIO, Editors Jasper Morrison and Marco Sammicheli, offer a mapping of the design archives international landscape at this moment in time and an overview of the many typologies and influences in the design world, divided in three sections: "Organizations", "Brands", "Designers & Creatives".

The first section, “Organizations”, includes institutions, museums and foundations that exhibit or treasure objects that have made design history, or are writing it right now.
“Brands”, on the other hand, is the section concerned with telling the story and consecrating some of the most internationally relevant companies, and doing so through their archival treasures.
The last section, though not least, is that of “Designers & Creatives”, featuring very different personalities united by their genius and ability to grasp the needs of society, drawing inspiration from it precisely.

The Design Issue also includes a special poster: an (in)complete mapping of the many design archives in Italy. A research by Promemoria visually processed by Accurat. The result is a map that is also a small work of art.

Dimensions: 23 x 30.5 cm; indexed
Number of pages: 240