TALK: Balboa/Campesato: Are we making too much noise? A conversation about sonic encounters | INTONAL 2026

Lílian Campesato (Brazil) and Laura Balboa (Mexico) will engage in a conversation about sound, noise, and listening, ranging from convivial experiences as “Latin Americans” in Denmark and Sweden to noise production, situated practices, pluriverses, and sonic cultural clashes. 

Laura Balboa is a Binnizá (Zapotec) autonomous researcher, radio producer, and artist based in Malmö, Sweden, who created a community radio platform called Bulla. This platform utilizes an oral technological framework for activist documentation, focusing on conversation, listening, sound, and experimental music by non-binary gender and non-conforming producers/artists of Mexican heritage or those who have worked in Mexican territory. Balboa's research has a socio-technological interest based on engaging with situated cultural production and community interactions. She has participated in different groups and projects ranging from female marginalized prison populations to open-source hw+sw and live coding communities.

Visit Laura Balboa's artist page - laurabalboa.com

Bulla Radio Project - bullaradio.net

Radio Nopal Community Radio - radionopal.com

Lílian Campesato is a Brazilian artist, researcher, and curator whose work connects sound, listening, art, and performance. She holds a PhD in Musicology from the University of São Paulo and has developed her career through multiple research scholarships, including three postdocs. Her Master’s dissertation on sound art remains an important reference in Brazil and was shortlisted for the CAPES Thesis Award (2012). Her research focuses on the politics of listening, with emphasis on gender, subjectivity, and critical perspectives on experimental music and sound art. She co-founded Sonora: musics and feminisms (2015) and, with Valéria Bonafé, leads Microfonias (2017–), a project exploring feminist and experimental listening methodologies. Since 2015, she has been an active member of the Research Centre on Sonology (NuSom). From 2025 to 2027, she holds a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Copenhagen, developing a project on how shared listening can reveal inaudible layers of sonic experience.

Visit Lílian Campesato's artist page – liliancampesato.net

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