Sound & Vision
Sounds Familiar
Artist In Residence
2025-2026
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Tarona (b. 1985, Curaçao) is a visual artist, film director and educator. Her work focuses on identity, culture and on new ways of being and seeing. She has a deep interest in creating more space for the Black Diaspora and the experiences of people with mixed and multicultural backgrounds. Her mission is to inspire people to fully embrace themselves — in ways that will bring impactful, constructive and postive changes that move across time and generations.
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25-007Stuart Hall & Hip-Hop
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25-003Archival frequencies
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Archival frequencies.
My mind works associatively. My last post was about Eugènie Herlaar, and since then I’ve been thinking about broadcasting and about our shared birth country, Curaçao. I’m thinking about the space between where I find myself, and where my place of birth is — and firstly thinking about the physical distance between where my body came to earth, and where my body is now on this earth. This distance is (approximately) 7.808.97 kilometers. This got me thinking about distance, space and time in relation to the archives — tangible and non-tangible.
I’m firstly now thinking of Eugènie Herlaar, because she’s in the front of my mind. When moving from there, I find myself generally thinking about folks who have passed away but whom we can still ‘visit’ through the use of recordings, in this case visually or sonic recordings (image + sound). Yesterday I had a strange awareness about knowing that a person is no longer physically with us, but because they have been recorded we can still have access to them. We can relive and revisit parts of them which have been captured and thus they are able to travel from the past into the present and on into the future. This has always seem unreal to me.
Question:
Am I listening to someone / something from the past, or is it the ‘now’ because I am listening to it now? When does something constitute the ‘past’, the ‘present’ and the ‘future’?
Some questions in relation to my intial question;
- What is an archive?
- What is the carrier of an archive?
- How does an archive move from one place to another?
- What consciousness does an archive have?
- Is the archive conscious of itself?
- What does an archive want to be?
- What materials is an archive made of?
- What constitutes a sonic archive?
- What constitues a visual archive?
- What frequency unlocks what file in the archive?
- What is the difference between an archive and a record?
- Are archives memories? Or predictors of the future?
- What are different words for ‘archive’?
- What are intangible archives?
Additional thoughts + notes;
- Distance, space, time, memory, frequency
- The body as an archive
- Merging of minds + memory
- Physicality vs. intangibility
- Sound waves, radio waves, waves
- Frequencies + movement – pulses and pitches
As I’m writing this, I’m listening to a radiostation on Curaçao right now because of the internet — the radiowaves no longer need to travel through the air; they now travel through my through my computer — significantly closing the gap in terms of physics. What if past, present and future would fold into one, layered on top of each other or are sequenced within a manner that all spaces dissapear through which we differentiate these three concepts?
Connective material
The Akashic Records
The akashic record is like an immense photographic film, registering all the desires and earth experiences of our planet. Those who perceive it will see pictured thereon:
- The life experiences of every human being since time began,
- The reactions to experience of the entire animal kingdom,
- The aggregation of the thought-forms of a karmic nature (based on desire) of every human unit throughout time. Only a trained occultist can distinguish between actual experience and those astral pictures created by imagination and keen desire.
In the religion of Theosophy and the spiritual movement called Anthroposophy, the Akashic records are believed by Theosophists to be a compendium of all universal events, thoughts, words, emotions, and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future in terms of all entities and life forms, not just human. They are believed by theosophists to be encoded in a non-physical plane of existence known as the mental plane. There is no evidence for the existence of Akashic records, and rigorous scientific research in this field has seen little traction. Akasha (ākāśa आकाश) is the Sanskrit word for "aether", "sky", or "atmosphere".
“Image Frequency Modulation is an ongoing iterated body of work investigating the sonic, visual and haptic frequencies of images. It is concerned with ancestral memory, transmission, oral tradition, and metaphors of radio technologies as sites of possibility for the African diaspora, beginning in the home, the body, the Black interior. Frequency modulation, or FM as popularly known in radio, is the encoding of information in a carrier wave, in this case signalling Black Atlantic connectivity across time and space. IFM installations are shapeshifting, site-specific, and process-based, decrypting Black feminist theorist Tina Campt's notion of 'haptic images': how we touch and are touched by images.” - Ethel Tawe
“Part of techno is literally hearing the machine build into the daily movement of Black bodies, the mimesis* of movement morphing later into a technology of rhythm.”
*mimesis: the process by which the work reflects and reinterprets the world around it.
“Underground resistance is a label for a movement; a movement that wants change by sonic revolution. We urge you to join the resistance, and help us combat the mediocre; the mediocre audio and visual programming that is being fed to the inhabitants on earth.”
NASA - Recording Of Black Hole
NASA released new audio approximating the sound of a black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster, which experts discovered had a pitch over a “million billion times deeper” than the limits of human hearing, making it too deep to be heard.
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