Turn Off and Shut Up: Latin American Sound Studies Colonial Regime of Loudness / Biocoloniality of Loudness

Abstract

An essay that exposes through past and present cultural research, categories for analysis and interpretation models such as the Colonial Regime of Loudness, Biocoloniality of Loudness referred to sound understood as an epistemic place and as a historical dominant regime. All that within the framework of Latin American Sound Studies whose vocation, as the author tells us, is to analyze the conflicts and cultural debates that shape what we call sonority, in a geological era in which we live marked by the Anthropocene and its loudness and inharmonic sonic dimension. At the same time, the essay proposes certain clues to forward from the world-system to the life-earth system, and thus open ourselves to listening, to habit and take responsibility with the Earth, our only home, in the context of the global health emergency and the civilizational crisis in which we are immersed.