On the wall of Maryam Monalisa Gharavi’s studio is a still from Buñuel’s ‘Los Olvidados’, showing a blind man staring at a chicken. In the latest episode of the Overexposed Podcast, , made in collaboration with Sonic Acts, Andrea Gonzalez talks to Monalisa about demonology, infrastructure and how any blockage to the vision of regimes that govern by making visible, is seen as a threat. Addressing the similarities between the commodities oil and data, Monalisa points to extraction as a defining factor of capitalism. Reading from her manuscript ‘Exhaust’, she states: ‘Capital is dead labor, vampire-like, living only by sucking living labor.”

Sonic Acts hosts six participants in the home-based residency programme 'Overexposed' which deals with pollution and its effects on everything living and non-living.

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi is an artist, poet, and theorist whose work deals with the paradoxes of our interactions with matter and immateriality, the seen and unseen, underlying everyday life and its common preconceptions.
Read more about her work here.

Andrea Gonzalez hosted and produced this episode for Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee.

Extractive Logic with Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

On the dark wet pavement, in between reflections of flickering streetlights and leaves decomposing, we find Valley Radio 071; a compilation carrying the essence of this late November, brought to us by the exceptional SITOI (@sitoi). 

"SITOI is a multidisciplinary artist in the field of experimental music and contemporary art. She uses performance art to manifest her eerie-yet-compelling visions of vulnerability, carnality and social structures through intricate poetry and dark disjointed production. SITOI enjoys a sweaty and purifying rave amongst classic and harsh techno but finds pleasure and inspiration also e.g. in noise, ambient, avantgarde pop and wrenching experimental club music." 

You can find the mix on our Soundcloud and as always we highly recommend taking some time to dive into SITOI her other works as well. 

Tracklist:
Dog Days - Varg, Ziúr & Puce Mary
Burning Feather - Eartheater
Economy of Freedom - Yves Tumor
No Idols - VISIONIST
Everything for Everyone - KABLAM
New Ways To Love - Holly Herndon
See The Light (ft. queendyster) - APEAK
Intro - Noform (Hålbå Remix)
Inhale, Suffocate - 111X
SKIN TIGHT - SLIKBACK X VAN BOOM
Atrocity (Grievance As A Substitute For Existence) - Exploited Body

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Valley Radio 071 - SITOI

London-based DJ, producer and UIQ boss Lee Gamble pays tribute to groundbreaking composer Alvin Lucier, who died earlier this month, aged 90.

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Alvin Lucier tribute – Mixed by Lee Gamble

I used Ableton's Operator synth's white noise and sine wave in A3 (220Hz in frequency) pitch to test and calibrate the spatialization of the 5.1 speaker setup in the project space of MACA during my residency there, building up for "Latent amongst the Air", a project commissioned by Sonic Acts Festival. Because of the unusual shape and structures of the space, I had to figure out some way to measure its acoustics + unconventional placement of the 5.1 speakers setup I was using.

But then a fun idea occurred to me to amplify(or abuse?) the project space's acoustic characteristics and spatiality furthermore with a waveform that is a bit more complex(sawtooth wave) and hence suspected that this would yield interesting aliasings and excite certain partials, creating "ghost melodies" of the space... 
In fact, when the project was under "installation mode" prior to the performance, this is what was being looped.

On Sunday afternoon 29-05-22 before the last round of performances, with help of Anne, I decided to record some improvisation with the space in this manner.
So here it goes, tuning of a space, which are latent melodies from partials of the pedal tone of A3 in SAW64 wave recapitulated by the project space of MACA while it's circulating around the room through the 5 speakers at the rate of 0.09 Hz speed. What's being stacked on top of A3 pitch as chords are some impromptu counterpoints on top to introduce some nice interference just for fun. Slight attenuation and phasing of the composition were probably also a contribution of Anne who was walking around and exploring the space with the recording device in place of my two feet and ears that were bounded by the hands playing keys behind the laptop...

Tuning Of A Space - During "Latent Amongst The Air" Sonic Acts Residency at MACA, Amsterdam 052922

Drawing from notes and recordings made during the Sonic Acts residency programme Overexposed x Lives of Deltas, sound artist Minji Kim aka Unknown Kim tells us about her ongoing research into the sonic qualities of the Zandmotor 'sand engine' experiment in the Netherlands. In this episode of the Overexposed Podcast made by Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee radio, Andrea Gonzalez speaks with Minji Kim, discussing the interplay between human life and the environment, the sonic qualities of wind and the use of auditory technologies in tracing diverse forms of decay.

Overexposed Podcast by Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee interviews participants of Sonic Acts’ OVEREXPOSED artistic research residency about artefacts that have moved their artistic practice in a lasting way.

Eavesdropping Environmental Crises with Minji Kim

SONIC ACTS FESTIVAL 2019 – HEREAFTER
Flavia Dzodan – The Coloniality of the Algorithm
23 February – De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

With an introduction by Juha van 't Zelfde.

The topic of Flavia Dzodan’s talk is the coloniality of the algorithm or how contemporary technologies became a tool of racial, gender and class exclusions that can be traced back to the foundational moment of modern capitalism in the eighteenth century. The databases that feed algorithms of both corporations and the surveillance state operate through the logic of resource extractives to classify us as voters, consumers, friends, foes, love interests, sex partners, suspects, criminals or potential perpetrators. Each of the steps that leads to these classifications has been informed by centuries old ideologies converging to assign us a role, a place in the database. These taxonomies, or systems of classification, have been in use since colonial times and cannot be detached from a history of racial, gender, sexual or class hierarchies.

Flavia Dzodan is an Amsterdam-based writer, media analyst and cultural critic. She is a lecturer and research fellow at the Critical Studies Department at Sandberg Institute. Her research is focused on the politics of Artificial Intelligence and algorithms at the intersections of (neo)colonialism, race and gender. She is the editor of the blog This Political Woman, where she has written about the rise of the alt-right, Big Data, networks, algorithms and community surveillance. She has been published at Dissent Magazine, The Guardian and The Washington Post, among others.

Sonic Acts 2019: Flavia Dzodan – The Coloniality of the Algorithm

Sonic Acts is an interdisciplinary arts organisation based in Amsterdam.

Sonic Acts 2019: Flavia Dzodan – The Coloniality of the Algorithm

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