This workshop, led by artist and DJ Soñ Gweha aka SOÑXSEED, explores deejaying and sampling as practices of narration, memory, and emancipation. Through a technical, poetic, and critical approach, the DJ gesture is conceived as a sonic writing space.
The workshop will introduce analog mixing culture – exploring vinyl records, turntables, and mixing desks – while also addressing storming technics, gestures of drift and disruption (slowing, reversing, beatmatching, cueing, looping, etc.) that transform the mix into a narrative and performative space.
Inspired by the performance Libation as a Sample (From the cellar to the stars), where the artist weaves together love, rage, spirituality, and technology, this workshop also focuses on voice – sung, poetic, mnemonic – and sampling as acts of libation: invoking, citing, transforming without erasing. It proposes interrogating festive and/or activist traditions originating in reggae, dancehall, hip-hop, and queer soul or house, where the dancefloor and the radio become spaces of political affirmation and collective reinvention.
Between analog techniques and digital tools, the student-participants will create a collaborative mix in which improvisation, sampling, voice, and storming technics will interact.
This workshop aims to be a sensory and critical space where memory, sound, and celebration come together to create vibrant, emancipatory, and unorthodox forms of listening and narration.
The evaluation is based on participation in the five days of the workshop and on the degree of active engagement of the participant-e-x.