Modulation #31 (Jerónimo Gutiérrez Balanta)

MODULATIONS ON THE FLY is a series of resonances in sound, art, and philosophy that presents student works of Petra Klusmeyer's »SnRC« (Sound and Research-Creation) project at HfK Bremen.

»Aura Coffee Company«

by Jerónimo Gutiérrez Balanta

The audio essay constitutes an exploration and reflection on the life of Jerónimo’s great-aunt Aura, who worked in the Merino coffee factory during the 1960s. Drawing on her oral traditions and narratives surrounding coffee, the work develops a sound-based essayistic practice that mobilizes perspectives from sonic philosophy to interrogate processes of silencing, the defiance of familial narratives, and the role of sound within artistic practice as a modality of memory-making.