Sounds and Voices of Violence

A study of sound, voice and database aesthetics in Luz María Sánchez’s work, published in The New Sentient and Spectrums in 2026.

Ryszard W. Kluszczyński examines the roles of found sound, voice and performance in Luz María Sánchez’s practice. The chapter connects her use of archives and databases with generative processes, audience participation and the spatial experience of her installations.

Discussing works including 2487, detritus, the Vis.[un]necessary force series and power · room, the essay develops an account of Sánchez’s transdisciplinary aesthetics and the relationships between listening, memory and political action. The New Sentient and Spectrums, edited by José Alberto Gomes, José Vasco Carvalho and Lorena Ferreira Alves, and is available in open access.

Ryszard W. Kluszczyński Published May 2026. In The New Sentient and Spectrums, pp. 84–102. UCP Press. Open access.

Kluszczyński, Ryszard W. “Sounds and Voices of Violence.” In The New Sentient and Spectrums, edited by José Alberto Gomes, José Vasco Carvalho, and Lorena Ferreira Alves, 84–102. UCP Press, 2026. https://doi.org/10.34632/9789725411995_5.

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