Author: Lucia Alfaro Valencia

Irazema H.Vera

Irazema H. Vera is a sound engineer, music producer, sound artist, researcher and activist from Peru. Her work revolves around memory, music and territory. As a researcher, she focuses on sound studies and the climate crisis, and on auditives epistemologies in historic and contemporary Peruvian music culture. As a sound director, she has participated in audiovisual initiatives (documentary and podcast) focused on conservation and memory, the relationship of communities with their territory and the destigmatization of communities in conflict zones. During her work documenting the Aimara protest in Lima, she became an important bridge to ensure respect for human rights. Her sound work has elements of traditions from the Puno highlands where she has her cultural heritage and has been featured on SONODOC, Radio Alhara in Palestine, RRFM in Holland and Común Radio in Peru.

Ollin Miranda (Dub Jam High)

Artist, documentarian, and new media filmmaker focused on cinematic and sound practices within social and contemporary art. He has worked both in Mexico and abroad on the creation of pieces and installations. He collaborated with the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in the Príamo Lozada archive and in the production of exhibitions and festivals. At the Fundación Alumnos47, he participated in the audiovisual area and in the production of the Tonelada project, which activated a collection of 8,600 vinyl records. Currently, he is a member of the Dub Jam High collective, influenced by Mexican sound system culture, European sound systems, and urban sound systems from South America and the Caribbean.

María Huerta

María Huerta is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, sculpture, sound, drawing, literature, digital media, UI/UX design, and site-specific interventions. Their work explores the relationships between living beings, memory, and social narratives, focusing on geological listening as the intersection of technology and transdimensional existence, aiming for socio-environmental regeneration. A graduate of Industrial Design from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL), María has participated in programs like PARAC and Art Reviews at the Adolfo Prieto School. They have collaborated on the independent publication “The Islands Also Move: Art, Politics, and Territory” and received the PECDA Nuevo León 2023 art grant. Their work has been exhibited in solo and group shows across Mexico and Latin America.

GG Albuquerque

GG Albuquerque is a journalist, music critic, and PhD in Communications Studies. His research has focused on Afro-diasporic and Global South electronic music. He is the co-director of the feature film “Terror Mandelão,” an experimental documentary about São Paulo’s funk bruxaria scene and DJ K, which premiered in 2024 at the Tiradentes International Film Festival in Brazil. Since 2015, he’s been editing the blog and page Volume Morto and is a co-founder of Embrazado, a journalistic project dedicated to the musical cultures of Brazilian favelas. He’s also the screenwriter of Spotify’s documentary on bregafunk music and was a member of the Official Jury at the Tiradentes Film Festival and the Super Jury at the Multishow Awards. He has written for outlets such as Vice Brasil, Bandcamp, KondZilla, UOL, Jornal do Commercio, Suplemento Pernambuco, and many others. In 2023, he was recognized with the Vozes 30 award, which highlights initiatives that illuminate the future of Brazilian communication.

Felipe Maia

Felipe Maia is a Brazilian journalist, ethnomusicologist, and DJ who covers popular music and digital technologies in the Global South. He is a PhD candidate at Université Paris Nanterre, researching Brazilian vehicular sound systems known as paredões. His work has appeared in media outlets such as The Guardian, Folha de S. Paulo, Mixmag, Resident Advisor, Remezcla, and others. He is also a resident DJ on Rinse France with BAÏLE, a radio show focused on showcasing baile funk as a club music genre, and curated the NTS album “Funk.BR – São Paulo”.

David Puente

There are journalists who chase stories, and then there are stories that chase journalists and capture their interest. David is a Barcelona-based journalist who has been pursued by the phenomenon of “Minitecas” for over a decade. In 2013, he met with several Venezuelan friends exiled in Barcelona to understand what minitecas were, and the conversation resulted in a journalistic research.

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