In this piece, I tried to build a text through wordplay and detours around questions that arise for me about the concepts of identity as resistance, identity in relation to territory, and the sense of perplexity that comes from identifying with "the other" — an other who may be distant.
These questions have accompanied me as a creator and lead me to decolonial thinking, because I feel there is a kind of cultural wound present in Latin America — especially for those of us living in cities. Lacking a clear traceability of identity traditions, we often live in a kind of permanent exile. However, thanks to "new urban identities" or modern cultural processes I see on the continent, I have come to understand identity as something living, in constant transformation — something that can be constructed “sideways.”
In the music, I used recordings created in collaboration with Natalia as raw material for the fixed-media electronics, combined with live looping and some guided improvisation techniques, in an attempt to explore various timbral possibilities of the voice as an instrument.