Noise as Protest
Thursday, December 5, 2019 | 5 PM – 9 PM
Conspiracy Garden Cafe
#59 Visayas Avenue, 1100 Quezon City, Philippines
Noise has been part of protest in the Philippines. Notable noise protests include the almost legendary banging of metal food trays at the Vinzon’s Hall cafeteria at UP Diliman soon after Martial Law was declared in 1972. The noise barrage before the bogus parliamentary elections in the Philippines in 1978 was the first widespread noise barrage under Martial Law. Noise barrages continue, including those protesting Extra Judicial Killings and other issues.
This workshop is interested however in noise as art for political protest. It is interested in the creation, performance, and sharing of works of art using noise (sound) as materials. Protest songs use word and music. Protest visual arts use paints, wood, and other physical materials. Protest noise, in this sense, uses noise.
Noise for protest is a new or unknown practice for many musicians and writers who are of the tradition of protest song, or new song (Nueva Cancion). This workshop is a way to explore the possibilities of this practice.
We will explore: what is the sound of protest, what is the noise of protest, and how do we, as musicians and writers and artists, make and share it?
~Bong Ramilo
