Songlinesdowsers Podcast Issue 1. Shadows - Kostenloses Hörbuch

sONglineS DowSerS Issue1 Podcast is a journey into shadow work and the healing tradition of Karelian Lamenting, focusing on the relationship between alchemy and resistance within the urban context and ritual lament as a narrative strategy for facilitating expressions of pónos, and techniques of “truth claiming”,  for performed speech-acts

In this first issue of sONglineS DowSerS; successive processes of mourning and lamenting function for engraving traces from the environment as the feasibility for sensory wail to penetrate the body — the sound as a river who carries and transmutes emotions.

Today we have with us three enchanted guests, magicians of transmuting shadows: Veronica Mota from Mexico and Berlin, and Emilia Kallonen and Eero Peltonen from Finland and Karelian traditions.

The podcast is moderated by Joana Canelas & Nazaré Soares and created  by Invisibledrum Art Platform

Participants biography:

Joana Canelas ( Portugal ) is finishing a PhD in social ecology and biocultural diversity. She investigates people’s relationships to nature, forests and trees, working with indigenous people’s knowledge, their storied landscapes and traditional resource management practices. Since 2009 she collaborates with diverse agroecology and agroforestry projects both in Portugal and the United Kingdom, working since 2013 as a researcher in biodiversity impacts and the social, cultural and political dimensions of people relationships with the more-than-human nature.

Emilia Kallonen (Finland)  is a folksinger and folk music pedagog. She practices lamenting as a performing artist and a teacher of lament history, tradition, and practice in Finland. She is a chairman of the Finnish association Voices of the Crying ["Äänellä itkijät ry."] which aims to cherish and revive Karealian lamenting tradition in modern Finland.

Verónica Mota Galindo  (Mexico) is a writer, sound artist, musician, body art performer, activist and teacher based in Berlin. After doing Philosophy studies in Mexico City, she/they worked as journalist and radio producer in Mexico, the US and Germany focusing on socio-political, Gender & cultural themes. Currently, she/they work as part of the AHACk: Sarah Connor Has a Dream zine collective which publishes their/hers written text on technology, transhumanism, cyberpunk, feminism & Capitalist Realism. She operates also under the name Espectra Negra in the dark ambient, ritualistic, techno and post-industrial music scene Berlin's. As activist, she/they work mainly spreading technological, critical and political content online as well as giving community based workshops on music production, collective healing and Techno-shamanism.

Eero Peltonen (Finland) explores the historical and mythological aspects of Finno-Ugric, Finno-Baltic and Scandinavian traditions. His work as a healer is based on Finnish and Karelian traditional healing practices. These are his main source of hid healing skills, knowledge, and techniques.

Nazaré Soares (Spain/Norway) is an artist and curator, she works around notions of invisibility, imperceptibility, and magic engineering. Her research and practice When the Spell is Broken, from 2014 and onwards, is developed from her interest in systems of interconnectivity deeply grounded in topographies of the imaginary spaces. She is a founder of the art platform Invisibledrum based in Norway, a platform investigating interrelationships and interconnections within technology, art, ecologies, and animistic systems in contemporary society.

Featuring a podcast with Eero Peltonen, Emilia Kallonen and Veronica Mota, along with sound artists Espectra Negra, Garazi Gorostiaga, Nazaré Soares, Andreas Elvenes, Andrew Stuart-Buttle, and Ambient Light.