VAST: Visiting Artist & Scholar Talks

TSONAMI ARTE SONORO is an organization based in Valparaíso, Chile, dedicated to fostering, developing, and promoting contemporary sound and auditory practices.

Since 2007, it has produced the Tsonami International Sound Art Festival, an annual event where sound artists from around the world gather for residencies and artistic processes that engage with the territory and the city as spaces for research and experience. Tsonami is both a festival of processes and creation, as well as exhibition.

Since 2012, the organization has been developing various lines of work in publishing, archiving, radio, education, and artwork production, including the AURAL Sound Art and Culture Magazine, the soundscape cartography/archive of Chile and Latin America at www.audiomapa.org, the Tsonami Records label at www.tsonamirecords.org, and the experimental online radio at www.radiotsonami.org.

It also has an educational area focused on promoting knowledge and exploration through a training program, notably the Tsonami Sound Art Diploma—now in its sixth edition—and cycles of online and in-person workshops held throughout the year. We also have the Latin American School of Sound Art, a project through which we create opportunities focused on arts pedagogy and sound ecologies, through laboratories for children and adults connected to educational processes.

Starting in 2018, Tsonami began a new phase by managing a physical space, B.A.S.E Tsonami, initially located in downtown Valparaíso and currently in Cerro Barón. There, Chile's first sound art gallery opened—Sala BASE—along with a space for permanent residencies, a Radio Tsonami studio, and a workspace for educational projects with children and adults.

Fernando Godoy: Sound artist, curator and director of Tsonami Arte Sonoro. His work explores sound and listening as spaces for cultural, sensory, and phenomenological relationships. His practice encompasses installations, radio broadcasts, concerts, listening actions, editorial publications, and curatorial work, presenting at festivals and venues in Chile, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Greece, and Germany.