SOUND ARTIFACT
«Live the sound diversity of Ecuador, in the middle of the world»

We offer an artistic residence in music and sound arts, free program, where participants set their own objectives and work methodology, while the hosts provide spaces, tools, links and accompaniment in the territory.

Participating projects may include research, creation, music and sound production, unconventional practices, exhibition and circulation, interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary processes, etc.

Objective:
Promote the meeting of cultural, musical and sound diversity of Ecuador with creative proposals from other regions of the world.

Addressed for:
- Creators, researchers, producers and other agents in the world of music and sound arts.
- Artists and other creative professionals interested in exploring and dialoging with music and sound arts.

Photo: Courtesy of Cumandá Urban Park

Services offered:

Accommodation:
Furnished apartment, shared with other resident artists. It has internet, bathrooms, equipped kitchen, living room, dining room. The residence is located in the city center, close to health services, financial, cultural and recreational areas.

Tools and spaces for artistic creation and production
Basic rehearsal room with music instruments, amplifiers, microphones; basic production studio with midi keyboard, PC, basic secuence software (we recommend you to bring your own laptop with the software of your preference).

- Approaches with agents, spaces and manifestations of the country's cultural diversity.

- Links with professionals of the musical and sound arts: researchers, pedagogues, creators, programmers, producers, composers and performers.

- Links with professionals from other artistic disciplines.

Seek of places for exhibiting the project products (depending on type and duration of projects):
These can include live performances, community activities, speeches, etc.

Creative dialogues with the context	Local platforms of exhibition	Integral processes and collaborative	Autonomous work

Extra services:

The following services are not provided by the residence; the hosts will provide support to identify the most convenient alternatives according to the needs and interests of the participants.

- Local and national mobilization.
- Travel insurance, medical expenses.
- Hours in professional recording studio, work materials, etc.

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CALL FOR ARTISTS

Application: March 1 to June 1, 2020.
Period of residence: April to December 2020.
Location: Quito, Ecuador

Photo: Omar Arregui	Photo: Courtesy of Cumandá Urban Park

Who can apply:
- Creators, researchers, producers and other agents in the world of music and sound arts.
- Artists and other creative professionals interested in exploring and dialoging with music and sound arts.

Requirements:
- Fill out the application form online.
- Curriculum Vitae (online format).
- Updated summary of relevant works (online format) with links to listen-visualize your musical or sound productions.
- Summary of the residence project (online format). Include objectives, methodology and tentative work schedule.
- Accept the terms of the call (online form).

Selection:
Applications will be attended on a first-come, first-served basis. Variations on residence dates might be suggested to some projects.

Notification:
The organization will send a notification e-mail to the artists selected for the period of this call.
Their participation will be confirmed by signing a letter of commitment between both parts.

Accompaniment to ongoing projects:
The host organization will provide strategic support to the development of projects in the territory; However, the achievement of the established objectives is the total responsibility of the artists in residence. This accompaniment will be carried out based on the schedule proposed in the project, which may vary during its development, if reasons are justified.

Products exhibition:
Whenever the projects merit it and the duration of the residence allows it, the call promotes the sample of the processes developed, either as "work in progress" or as final products of the residence.

Photo: Omar Arregui

Project reports:
All projects must build a blog with the memory of the process, supported in any format (audio, video, text, etc.) and accompany them with an introductory text and a representative image. This material will be published on the ArteFacto Sonoro website as a reference for the process.

Rights:
Without affecting copyright, all resident artists will recognize the collaboration of ArteFacto Sonoro when they disseminate, by any means, the works produced partially or totally during their residency. To do this, they will use the logo provided by the organization.

Investment:
USD $ 450 per month (USD $ 400 for two or more months). These amounts cover what is described in the “offered services” section.

Duration:
From 1 to 6 months.

Application form

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PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

EleKtroPeT / Pedro Alayón (Mexico)

«Thank you very much for all the support, accommodation and logistics, to the artistic residence, ArteFacto Sonoro, thanks to all your support, I was able to develop my Hiper Transformaciones Urbanas project. A disruptive trip between cities, such as sound studio, photo and graphic video. Incredibly collaborating with the project Revealed City, by Marcia Ushiña, in addition to giving a binaural microphone workshop in Cumandá Parque Urbano and through both, it was feasible to develop various sound landscapes, an exhibition and live act as a live cinema, photography and video, which are specified on the website Urban Binaural" June-July 2018

«Thanks to ArteFacto Sonoro, I was able to collaborate with other musicians from Quito, from the residence and from indigenous communities. They also made it possible for me to compose, rehearse and present my songs. They were supporting me, since before arriving in Quito and throughout the residence ». April-May 2018

Imma Lucas (Spain)

Roberto Martínez (Mexico)

«ArteFacto Sonoro was a learning and development space where I was able to share knowledge with other residents and hosts.» April-June 2018

«From walking and drawing a map, affections are born, new ways of feeling a space are born. Walking through these spaces is a way of making these affections visible and delivering new ways of inhabiting it. » June-July 2018

Renzo Filinich (Chile-Peru)

Ahmed Fofana (Mali)

«Thank you very much to the entire team of the residence, in particular to Camilo, for his hospitality and his friendly respect. Thank you very much to all the equips of the «Madambe» festival; Thanks to them I met only talent and good people in Ecuador. I spent a pleasant time in this beautiful, quiet residence, located in a very nice neighborhood very clean. Then I was able to concentrate on my artistic project, without any worries. I am at your disposal for any proposal of artistic and cultural collaboration at my 3MProd2 residence, in Mali - Africa. » June-July 2018

«Auditory memories: a sound mapping of the San Roque market» was a great and inspiring sound journey from a market that extrapolates its architecture and walls. In each drift a surprise was revealed, lived and heard. ArteFacto Sonoro provided a productive cultural exchange between Brazil and Ecuador. Exchange that I had immense joy in sharing with Marta Julia Serengue, Camilo Urbano, JJosué Jaramillo and Estebam Coloma. The San Roque market in a small route of its corridors and affections. A great experience for eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hands and heart. » September-October 2018

Daniel Nunez (Brazil)

Tzeng Shing-Kwei (Taiwan)

His residency at ArteFacto Sonoro allowed him to participate in the International Festival of Contemporary Music with two works. August-September 2018

«My stay at ArteFacto Sonoro allowed me to face new cultural management challenges to unite, in a festival, Quito and Santiago, giving me practical experience in recognizing the formation of translocal scenes, thus observing the differences and similarities that characterize us as Latin Americans ». October 2018

Cristian Guerra (Chile)

John Palmer (USA)

«The residency has been exactly what I have needed. From learning cultural norms, to learning more spanish, to making solid musical connections, the experience has provided an opportunity to grow out of my past comfort zone and into a new, more confident level of musicianship and living. » November-December 2018

«Quito is a city with very hospitable people. I had the opportunity to meet very interesting and very nice people. No doubt those factors significantly influenced my creative process during residency. » February 2019

Daniel Lara Ballesteros (Mexico)

Alina Ozerova (Russia - Netherlands)

«Sound Artifact gave me an opportunity to realize my sound installation which is a part of participatory series'Non-vertical listening'. The exhibition location we chose in Cumandá urban park was perfectly fitting the nature of my work. And preceding 3-days workshop organized in National Dance Company was a fun way to meet inspiring artists and professionals from Quito, it contributed a lot to the development of the project. » February 2019

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CONTEXT INFORMATION

At the middle of the world, multiculturalism brings together the ancestral and the contemporary, the local and the global. Dare to discover the sounds of Ecuador!

Our cultural diversity:
Ecuador has about 13'000.000 inhabitants and a little more than 260,000 km2. Its population is divided into four natural regions: the Galapagos archipelago, the Pacific coast, the Andes mountains and the Amazon jungle.

Quito, headquarters of the "ArteFacto Sonoro" residence, is located in a strategic place. Thanks to the country's excellent road and tourist infrastructure, you can visit the Amazon (east) or the coast (west) in just 5 hours on the road. Traveling from one region to another allows us, in a few hours, to cross different climatic floors and observe incredible landscapes. In Ecuador, there are currently 13 indigenous nationalities and 14 languages. The most numerous town in the country is the Quichua, which inhabits the entire strip of the Andes and part of the Amazon. Although the majority of 1 @ Secuatorian © s are mestizos, the diversity of our peoples includes Afro-Ecuadorians, in the north-western part of the country, even the Shuar peoples of the jungle, in the south east. At the same time, Quito is a welcoming territory for a diversity of foreign colonies from all over the world. Being the capital, it has the largest cultural infrastructure and network of cultural agents in the country. Indeed, the arts find in Quito a vibrant local and international scene that is shown through museums and cultural centers, festivals and fairs, recreation centers, public spaces and active communities.

Our musical and sound diversity:
In recent years, the music and sound art scene has developed significantly. This is due, in part, to the emergence of several music and contemporary art university schools. A large number of artists, music producers and managers of the young Ecuadorian music industry have graduated from these schools, while a good number of them have returned from abroad postgraduate studies. LINKS AND PHOTOS HERE (conservatories, national orchestras and music schools)

This renewed knowledge and the establishment of certain favorable public policies have strengthened creative processes that put the contemporary in dialogue with the musical and sound traditions of different regions and towns of the country. In this way, in recent years we have seen the development of projects to strengthen the sound and musical heritage of the country, as well as the emergence and internationalization of projects that fuse indigenous and Afro-descendant traditions with contemporary styles. Currently, several Ecuadorian artists generate interest in international stages such as "outsiders" capable of breaking schemes and captivating with new sounds and musical forms.

Although Ecuador remains as a small music market, Quito has several music production and post-production companies, booking and management agencies and other professional agents in the industry. It also has a strong network of professionals in areas such as research, experimentation and exhibition of sound and interdisciplinary arts, linked to contemporary art centers, curatorship, pedagogy and academia.

In fact, Quito is scenario for music festivals and art exhibitions that have reached the international circuit, hosting the most important world exponents in different musical genres and artistic disciplines.

Photo: Omar Arregui Gallegos	Photo: Omar Arregui Gallegos	Photo: Omar Arregui Gallegos

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ALLIES

UIO Guitars	Society of Independent Authors and Composers (SACIN)	Ecuadorian Composers Network
Noise Artists Network	Omar Arregui Gallegos	Aya Records - ZZK Records