“Waves of Redemption: Contemporary Sounds in Solidarity with Mexico,” Substrata, 2017

Forces of nature often leave one stupefied? What can possible help hundreds killed, and thousands more injured and missing after two massive earthquakes, one right after another, in Chiapas and Puebla, Mexico? Substrata doesn’t have answers, but they did do something. There strategy is told fold: One, sell a product whose funds directly fund reconstruction works by the Mexican NGO: Cooperación Comunitaria A.C. Two, bring together over 23 artists in electroacoustic music, contemporary composition, soundscape, noise, drone, free improvisation and sound art to meditate as a nation, ” Waves of Redemption from the curatorship is an artistic look at unpredictable, indomitable, chaotic and titanic forces of nature, in every manifestation and in turn also echoes the bewilderment in the midst of the catastrophe.”  Just as important as material aid, is the health of the immaterial spirit the nation.  A work whose production and product inspires solidarity and emotional processing is just as vital a powerful.

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