Warscape Sonata
by vlax
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Title
Warscape Sonata
Headline
a sound art production that remixes information related to the drug war in Mexico
Concept author(s)
Vladimir Flores Garcia
Concept author year(s) of birth
1974
Concept author(s) contribution
Artists, coordinator, remixer and editor in chief
Concept author(s) Country
Mexico
Friendly Competition
Competition category
Mobilization
Competition field
nonacademic
Competition subfield
artist
Subfield description
I'm remixing two ways of communication: radio journalism and visual arts. My soundscapes or sound art pieces are based in the documentation of the social situation that I observe in my country Mexico. The art I create is available on-line as files to download, and also I create situations (concerts, radio shows) to share with more people.
Check out the Debt. 2012 outlines of Memefest Friendly competition.
Description of idea
Describe your idea and concept of your work in relation to the festival outlines:
Warscape Sonata highlights the way in which Mexico's civilian population experiments with information technologies to confront propaganda, social control and fear.
RSS news channels, microblogging hashtags, and viral videos are used as sources for an electronic registry of the historic moment of militarized Mexico. The information obtained from these sources is manipulated by free software to extract sound archives which are then used to create a sound art production that places aesthetic emphasis on the media aspect of the war.
What kind of communication approach do you use?
Radio Streamings, concerts, and websites with files to play and download freely.
What are in your opinion concrete benefits to the society because of your communication?
To contribute to the international discussion about the "war on drugs" as part of the mechanism of social control in the so called "third world".
What did you personally learn from creating your submitted work?
My project is a tribute to the civil population, that by thousands has been killed as part of the "collateral damages" of the Mexican Narco War sponsored by the USA goverment.
I observe a huge increment of victims and violence of the global economics, and as a communicator I think there's an important action that needs to be done. This action is also a symbol of freedom and human solidarity.
Why is your work, GOOD communication WORK?
Because I'm returning back all the works i'm creating. This social returns is carachterized for the promotion of Free Culture, using free licences and free software as a political tecnologies to reinforce the communication process.
Where and how do you intent do implement your work?
I can organize live concerts and/or radio shows (digital streaming) from Mexico or from practically everywhere. The concert consist in one moment of playing sounds and also a 'conference' moment, in wich i talk about social situation in Mexico in the context of the War on drugs.
Did your intervention had an effect on other Media. If yes, describe the effect? (Has other media reported on it- how? Were you able to change other media with your work- how?)
My work has been reported basically in free and communitarian radio broadcasts. I think the effect produced have the characteristic of remix the classic tecnique of the journalism (data track, documentation and investigation,, etc) but also have the symbolism and freedom of the visual arts.