Conversations are a cornerstone of the Sonic Pluriverse Festival: Terapia’s discursive segment. By fostering dialogue, these discussions play a crucial role in  providing essential context for subsequent concerts, but also to amplify voices and articulate experiences, themes, and sounds that have been marginalized or overlooked. Through this series, artists from the Sonic Pluriverse Festival create a platform to discuss their practices and engage in a dialogue with guest artists to review shared experiences and exchange sonic insights with the audience. These live conversations are recorded and archived, contributing to the festival's publishing materials and forming a four-part podcast series. 

In this talk, members from the artist collective Systema Solar and musician Jim C. Nedd consider the interplay between sonic memories and visual narratives. Drawing inspiration from vibrant Afro-Caribbean rhythms that pulsate through the streets and the compelling snapshots that capture the essence of Colombia's Caribbean coast, as presented in Nedd's photography book Remembering Songs (2023), the conversation details and develops the symbiotic relationship between sound and imagery. This connection aims to reveal the profound power of these artistic elements to evoke memories and narratives that transcend mere celebration or sorrow, resonating with everyday existence and cultural identity.

Jim C. Nedd
Jim C. Nedd is a photographer, artist, and musician with roots in Colombia and Italy, who works in the richly creative space between fiction and documentary photography. In his debut monograph Remembering Songs (2023) he creates an acoustic representation of his photographic art which draws from the local mythologies of Colombia's Caribbean coast, capturing scenes of acoustically charged environments where the everyday and the theatrical exist simultaneously. 

Systema Solar 
Systema Solar is a collective of independent musicians and visual artists deeply immersed in the vibrant sonic world of Afro-Caribbean rhythms. Their mission is to craft unique audio-visual experiences, a concept they’ve coined ‘berbenautika’, where elements from the lively verbenas (street parties) of Barranquilla interlace within their distinctive style.

Inspired by the picó sound system culture, the group’s members come together to explore, reinterpret, and innovate across various musical genres through spontaneous improvisation. They infuse traditional Colombian Caribbean rhythms such as cumbia, bullerengue, porro, and champeta with influences from contemporary rhythms and cultural styles such as hip hop, house, techno, breakbeat, breakdance, turntablism, and live video performances, resulting in an auditory and visual approach that transcends conventional genre boundaries.