The “Punto de Encuentro” Festival has been organized by the AMEE since 1990. This edition presents a series of workshops, talks and performances, in continuity with the “En Red” 10th Symposium held in 2018 in Medialab-Prado, focused on the subject of voice in poetry, cinema and experimental music. The development of voice as an artistic research field brings up questions regarding the notion of ‘vocal agency’: a certain politics of voice, vocality and intervocality. This includes discussing and reflecting upon ways of speaking and how different uses and conceptions of voice favor certain political orientations, social classes, or forms of relationships in terms of modes or practices of listening. Can the body of knowledge acquired through sound art practices, particularly that of the voice as a field of artistic experimentation, prove useful as a starting point to think about, or at least to evoke or attempt to evade, conditions of...

The 3-day workshop aims to reflect upon acoustics as a framework that, by lending to the shaping of social and spatial environments, greatly impacts onto experiences of belonging and unbelonging. Extending from Jacques Rancière’s notion of “the distribution of the sensible,” we’ll consider how communities rework “the distribution of the heard” by intervening onto a dominant acoustic. This includes reflecting upon different forms of acoustic practices, from self-organized dance clubs to silent protests conducted against economic injustices to fostering affective economies of domestic life. Acoustic practices provide a base for reorienting understandings of agency as a question of appearance, discourse and legibility; rather, we’ll explore how the capacity to shift volumes, to generate alternative rhythms, or to retune the tonalities of particular situations assists in nurturing the conditions that define the right to be seen and to be together. This includes rethinking “materialism” in favor of “energetics,” and how acoustics...