Black Silence is an immersive experience that goes through sound installation and scientific dissemination in a hybrid way.

Black Silence is a sound-art piece that reflects on the genocide of originary peoples from Patagonia and Pampa in the military campaigns called “The Conquest of the Desert” carried out by the Argentine Government between 1878 and 1885. In order to create this piece, a reading of different types of documents belonging to the social sciences (anthropology, historical revisionism, linguistic studies, musicology, etc.) has been carried out, where the phenomenon conquest of the desert/genocide of originary peoples has been analyzed from different approaches. Field recordings used here have been made by anthropologists and musicologists, which contain sound practices of those survivors and/or their descendants. Some recordings date from the early 20th century made on wax cylinders, others are more recent recordings. Many of these recordings are private heritage of European museums and many others are freely accessible.

The piece is presented as a quadraphony or octophony in a blind space.

Black Silence has been presented at the Eufonía Festival in Ex-Bauhaus (Berlin, Germany) in November 2020; for the solstice of June and December 2021 in Kulturtemplet (old cistern of the city of Gothenburg, Sweden); in the Podcast of the Tsonami Sound Art Festival (Chile) in December 2021, in the Siren festival (University of Gothenburg) in January 2022 and in September 2022 in the visionesosnoras festival in the CMMAS (Mexican Center for Music and Sound Arts). In December 2021 we made a presentation at the Table of "Images, power and social studies" during the "III ICSE-UNTDF Scientific Meeting and II Conference of ICSE/FLACSO Researchers and Students".

Here you can listen to it as a Podcast