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The inaugural broadcast, titled Transterritorios 1: Antenas, un reflejo abstracto (Antennas: an abstract reflection), aired from Radio IF on December 20, 2020. It was the first of two transmissions that were a part of the XIV Festival de Arte Sonoro Tsonami.

The three-hour event, of which a one-hour excerpt is made available here, is described by IF as a “radiophonic happening.” It begins with an introduction from its “conductor,” sound and radio artist and curator Florencia Curci, followed by other co-habitants who describe more of the intention behind IF’s practice and the Transterritorios idea.

The program draws inspiration from the 1960s media art avant-garde in Argentina, which included artists such as Eduardo Costa and Roberto Jacoby who are interviewed in these broadcasts. Live readings and conversations in Spanish, music, experimental sound, and field recordings are used to explore the particularities and differences between land (tierra) and territory (territorio). They explain that land carries with it the potentials, multiplicities, and the diverse. Place is infused with all that is possible from the land, and belongs to no one in particular. Territory, on the other hand, arises from establishing power relations on certain portions of land. One must first create the conditions to solidify geographical definitions of a territory. A transterritory then, is an oscillation between land and territory tuned and synchronized with the electromagnetic spectrum and the biological algorithms who govern it.

Participants in the broadcast included: Agustín Genoud, Eduardo Costa, Sonido Cínico, Sebastián Durán, MRS SOUVENIR, Felipe Saez Riquelme, Julián Galay, Roger Colom, and A77. It was conducted by Florencia Curci. - Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow 2022, José Alejandro Rivera.

To listen to the Transterritorios radio happenings in full, visit the archive portion of their webpage at investigacionesdelfuturo.org