Making It Heard

Rui Chaves is a sound artist, performer, and researcher. He has presented his work in several institutions and events throughout the United Kingdom, Brazil, France, Canada, Portugal, and Germany. As a researcher, he is interested in developing accounts of contemporary sound artworks produced within the Global South. Fernando Iazzetta is a Brazilian composer, performer, and Professor of Music and Technology at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, as well as the director of NuSom—Research Centre on Sonology. As a researcher he is interested in the investigation of experimental forms of music and sound art.

List of Figures
Foreword: The Clash between Body and Artwork (Ricardo Basbaum, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)
Acknowledgements
Introduction (Rui Chaves and Fernando Iazzetta, University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Part One: Abre-Alas
1. Sounds from Elsewhere: Episodes for a History of Brazilian Sound Art (Fernando Iazzetta, University of São Paulo, Brazil)
2. Making Oneself Heard in Public, through Art and in Sound-Based Scholarship (Rui Chaves, University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Part Two: Bateria
3. Music Is What I Make (Vivian Caccuri, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
4. Radio Art, Cassette Culture, and Networked Artistic Practices: The International Ra(u)dio Art Show (IRAS) in Recife (Yuri Bruscky, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
Part Three: Barracão
5. Gambiarra’s Perspective (Giuliano Obici, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)
6. Listening to the Debris: Brazilian Sound Art and the Low-Technology Economy (Andre Damião, University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Part Four: Avenida
7. Being in the Field: Process, Narrativity, and Discovery in the Field-Recording Work of Thelmo Cristovam and Alexandre Fenerich (Paulo Dantas, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
8. Other Paths to Sonic Cartographies: "Mapa Sonoro CWB" and Its Untethered Soundwalks (Thaís Aragão, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)
Part Five: Batucada
9. Out of the Mainstream: Noise and Otherness in the Work of Marie Carangi, Paula Garcia, and Sofia Caesar (Lílian Campesato, University of São Paulo, Brazil)
10. Counter-Tradition: Toward the Black Vanguard of Contemporary Brazil (GG Albuquerque, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
11. Engaged Sonorities: Politics and Gender in the Work of Vanessa De Michelis (Tânia Mello Neiva, Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil)
Afterword: The Audibility of Brazilian Sound Art (Ana M. Ochoa Gautier, Columbia University, USA)
List of Contributors
Index