Veronica Anne Salinas with Amanda Guitérrez: Walking as an Infra-Antenna

In this soundwalk, the radio becomes a symbolic tool of spectral communication to connect with the living and the dead, crossing borders, time zones, and metaphysical dimensions. The soundwalk will begin at West Ridge Nature Preserve and continue through the Rosehill Cemetery, and end at Experimental Sound Studio, where a sound incantation will be performed in collaboration with sound artists Veronica Anne Salinas and Amanda Gutierrez. 

The artists write, “FM incantations act as a metaphor for enacting magic technology, emitting radio transmissions and receiving electromagnetic waves from/to the infraworld, future entities, and past ancestors through resonant signals. Sound is translated through the radio as ceremonial practice for communal listening, with our bodies as antennas to the sacred airwaves.” West Ridge Nature Park is located at 5801 N Western Ave. Click here for accessibility information. Please note that this event will occur on July 19, not July 12 as listed on the graphic. 

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Veronica Anne Salinas is a sound artist, educator, writer, and Deep Listener based between Chicago, IL and Texas. Their sonic research explores compositions, soundwalks, multichannel audio, improvisation, text scores, field recording, and performance. Engaging with themes of perceptual shifts, meditations, slow processes, intersections of visual and sonic landscapes, Deep Listening practices, and ecologies, they use ambient, drone, and noise music to attune to subtle transformations in environment and perception. She has studied at the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and holds an MFA in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a co-founder and artistic director of Tierras Sonidas, an annual sound art festival in Marfa, TX, a facilitator at Campbient, and currently serves on the board of directors for the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology.

Amanda Gutiérrez explores the experience of political listening and gender studies by focusing on soundwalking and radio practices. She is currently developing the academic aspect of her work as a Ph.D. candidate in Arts and Humanities at Concordia University. Her artistic experience has been showcased internationally in art residencies like FACT in Liverpool, UK, ZKM in Germany, TAV in Taiwan, and Bolit Art Center in Spain. Additionally, her sound artwork has been exhibited at various international venues, including The Liverpool Biennale in 2012, Harvestworks in NYC, SBC Gallery, Undefined Radio in Montreal, Errant Bodies Studio Press in Berlin, POP Montreal, the City of Women Festival, and the To)POT Festival in Ljubljana, as well as the ENSEMS Music Festival in Valencia, Sur Aural in Bolivia, and the Tsonami Sound Festival in Chile.