Voidwave is thrilled to feature an interview and works of Carmina Escobar. Kim and Carmina had this conversation in 2022 over zoom, so common at the time of course, that came to slow fruition into this show, exploring Carmina’s interests in the voice as so very human and beyond the realms of humanity. Carmina share’s her origin story as an artist, fascinations of the worldly physical and mythological qualities of sound, the politics of intimacy, improvisational listening as an ontological practice, and being moved as spiritual bodies and social beings. Carmina shares her own world of primordial questions that are explored through her vocal practice with collaborators and listeners. The works presented here are selected and shared by Carmina with us to go alongside the conversation.

Carmina Escobar is an extreme vocalist, composer, improviser, filmmaker, sound and intermedia artist based in LA. Escobar investigates and expresses emotions, memory spaces, states of alienation, and the possibilities of interpersonal connection through voice performances, installations, experimental theater, interdisciplinary collaboration, spoken word, resonance, and video/film pieces that seeks to challenge our understandings of musicality, gender, queerness, race, and the foundations of human communication. As an immigrant from Mexico, key to her practice is the exploration of interstitial states of being—suspensions between worlds, politics, and borders. Carmina has an ever growing group of collaborators, artistic and musical projects, and artistic recognitions.

Voidwave is a web of experimental voices, sounds, and interviews with a focus on work by femme, gender non-conforming, and queer folx. Embedded in these sound practices are rebelliousness and longing, hunger for new subversive futures, irreverence, determined perseverance, political potency, uncompromising processes, and includes a celebration of lineages that spans across time and the globe. Voidwave is a 2-hour radio show that features work from artists who use experimental sound and music, performance, field recording, spoken word, sound art, sound poetics, and other disobedient audio speculations – adventures into sound and conversations with the people who made them.