Heretical Voicings is a reflection on our existence and place in the world. It is a study in embodiment through the formulation of a hybrid body language co-created with Audium.

The piece oscillates between abstract and personal expressions through the unorthodox use of oral and digital technologies, accessing the voice for sound matter and for its cultural connection to meaning making.

Few of us today are as connected to community- which is to say other humans- as we were four years ago. Kukusanyika Pamoja is an exercise in connection and empathy. Using interviews, sounds, space, and group interactions, this composition encourages audiences to hear one another, have a collective experience, and celebrate themselves for being present in community.

Córdova borrows their title from Mosab Abu Toha’s collection of poems by the same name. Córdova seeks to create a work that embraces the collision of two different worlds: the exploration of both chance coincidences and stark divergences between the poet’s experience living in occupied Palestine, and their own, living both in colonized Puerto Rico and at the heart of empire in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Find out more about the 23/24 residency here.

Audium’s Sound Residency Program is funded in part through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts & the Zellerbach Family Foundation.