Transplanetary Frequencies Station
Transplanetary Frecuencies Station (EFT) | Credits: Gabriela Munguía
Transplanetary Technology Emitter | Credits: Gabriela Munguía
Transplanetary Technologies Receiver | Credits: Gabriela Munguía
EFT Community | Credits: Gabriela Munguía
EFTAsimtria.JPG | Credits: Asimtria
EFTConstanzaAlarcón.jpg | Credits: Constanza Alarcón
EFTGabrielaMunguía.JPG | Credits: Gabriela Munguía
EFTPaulaTeler1.jpg | Credits: Paula Teler
EFTPaulaTeler.jpg | Credits: Paula Teler
In the era of the Technocene, where Earth faces a multidimensional ecosocial and geopolitical crisis, outer space has also become a contested territory of extraction. Today, it becomes urgent to build more habitable and dignified worlds through alliances between matter, technique, and care. To confabulate means plotting together, weaving ourselves into the commons to remember our multitude with the Earth and cosmos.
The Transplanetary Frequencies Station is a participatory sound performance in the form of a speculative geocosmic laboratory open to sonic experimentation, collective readings, deep listening and invocations, site-specific sound interventions, nomadic radio activations, and experimentation with open technologies for speculative light-sound interstellar communications.
Emerging from the tension between creativity and cosmological imagination, this experimental sonic platform invites us to look toward the skies and ask ourselves what it means to be terrestrial beings in times of a wounded planet. A space for deep listening, where interstellar technologies integrate with our own cosmological visions and bring scientific and sensory experiences together.
The project aims to embed human and more-than-human sonorities into light transmissions to be sent through deep space. Rather than distancing ourselves into the depths of the universe, this practice becomes a profound way of re-rooting ourselves to E(e)arth—an offering placed upon a cosmic threshold.
These experiences have been collaboratively activated across diverse artistic and cultural spaces in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, promoting reflections on planetary communality and pluriversal coexistence, using sonic experimentation as a tool for imagining alternative earthly and cosmic relationships.
In the era of the Technocene, where Earth faces a multidimensional ecosocial and geopolitical crisis, outer space has also become a contested territory of extraction. Today, it becomes urgent to build more habitable and dignified worlds through alliances between matter, technique, and care. To confabulate means plotting together, weaving ourselves into the commons to remember our multitude with the Earth and cosmos.
The Transplanetary Frequencies Station is a participatory sound performance in the form of a speculative geocosmic laboratory open to sonic experimentation, collective readings, deep listening and invocations, site-specific sound interventions, nomadic radio activations, and experimentation with open technologies for speculative light-sound interstellar communications.
Emerging from the tension between creativity and cosmological imagination, this experimental sonic platform invites us to look toward the skies and ask ourselves what it means to be terrestrial beings in times of a wounded planet. A space for deep listening, where interstellar technologies integrate with our own cosmological visions and bring scientific and sensory experiences together.
The project aims to embed human and more-than-human sonorities into light transmissions to be sent through deep space. Rather than distancing ourselves into the depths of the universe, this practice becomes a profound way of re-rooting ourselves to E(e)arth—an offering placed upon a cosmic threshold.
These experiences have been collaboratively activated across diverse artistic and cultural spaces in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, promoting reflections on planetary communality and pluriversal coexistence, using sonic experimentation as a tool for imagining alternative earthly and cosmic relationships.
Guest artists: Sandra Ulloa, María Paz Calabrano, Emilia Duclos, Alfonso Leyton, Cristobal Arenas, Pablo Arancibia, Susana Chao, Elisa Balmaceda, Denis Álves Rodirigues, Rodrigo Ríos Zunino.
Soundart pieces: Coro de las especies by Juanita Fernández and Enjambre by Mariel Terán.
Special thanks to: Patricia Bernal, Guadalupe Chávez, Ángel Salazar, Pablo Arancibia, Sandra Ulloa, Nataniel Álvarez, María Paz Calabrano, Susana Chao, Marco Valdivia, Milagros Saldarriaga, Alfredo Aracil, Eduardo Mollinari, Jorge Barco, Florencia Curci, Juanita Fernández, Denis Álves Rodirgues, Elisa Balmaceda, Rodrigo Rios Zunino, Maia Gonzales, Adelina Ducos, August Black, my crewmates Radicantes, the great team of “Memorias Híbridas”, and all the partners, participants and more than human communities that have nurtured and collaborated with this project.
This project has the support of the Radicante Residency Program by LiquenLab (CL); the VI Latin American Festival of Arts and Technologies “Toda la Teoría del Universo” (CL); the PumPumYachKan Festival of New Media and Free Technologies for Audiovisual, Music and Listening by Asimtria.org (PE); the Tres Ecologías Program at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (AR); the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (CO); the Tsonami Sound Art Festival (CL); Co-lab Biocultural Heritage and Universidad de Magallanes (CL); Pastizal Artist Residency and Las Piedras Nature Reserve (AR); and La Zona Residency Program (AR).
Gabriela Munguía (MX) is a transmedia artist, researcher, and curator. From experimental intersections between art and technoscience, she explores planetary ecological and cosmotechnical phenomena to address issues of geopolitics, environmental justice, and interspecies studies. Her work has received numerous recognitions including the Prince Claus-Institut Goethe Award for Cultural and Artistic Response to Environmental Change; CIFO-ARS Electronica; Prix Ars Electronica Interactive Art Honorary Mention; among others. Her work has been exhibited in prominent international exhibitions and festivals in the Americas, Europe, Egypt, and Iran.
Gabriela Munguía (MX) is a transmedia artist, researcher, and curator. From experimental intersections between art and technoscience, she explores planetary ecological and cosmotechnical phenomena to address issues of geopolitics, environmental justice, and interspecies studies. Her work has received numerous recognitions including the Prince Claus-Institut Goethe Award for Cultural and Artistic Response to Environmental Change; CIFO-ARS Electronica; Prix Ars Electronica Interactive Art Honorary Mention; among others. Her work has been exhibited in prominent international exhibitions and festivals in the Americas, Europe, Egypt, and Iran.
The Transplanetary Frequencies Station is a participatory sonic project that invites people to engage in sound walks, deep listening, and sonic actions. It explores sound as vibrant matter, connecting Earth and cosmos through improvisation. Amid ecological and social crises, Transplanetary Frequencies Station fosters awareness, radical imagination, and ancestral knowledge. The project features collective readings, site-specific actions, and speculative tools for interstellar communication, reflecting on planetary coexistence. Realized in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, Transplanetary Frequencies Station culminates in a participatory performance where sound and voices are transmitted into the night sky via a high-powered laser—a poetic act of collective resonance and hope, imagining new forms of ecological and cosmic connection without knowing an existing receiver. An exemplary form of community building.
The Transplanetary Frequencies Station is a participatory sonic project that invites people to engage in sound walks, deep listening, and sonic actions. It explores sound as vibrant matter, connecting Earth and cosmos through improvisation. Amid ecological and social crises, Transplanetary Frequencies Station fosters awareness, radical imagination, and ancestral knowledge. The project features collective readings, site-specific actions, and speculative tools for interstellar communication, reflecting on planetary coexistence. Realized in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, Transplanetary Frequencies Station culminates in a participatory performance where sound and voices are transmitted into the night sky via a high-powered laser—a poetic act of collective resonance and hope, imagining new forms of ecological and cosmic connection without knowing an existing receiver. An exemplary form of community building.