Through the interplay of sound, storytelling, and visual projections, the work explores how music can become a vehicle for experiencing territories and uncovering their unique geographies.

Developed for the public program of the Amazonias: Ancestral Future exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, in collaboration with the audiovisual project Altar Sonoro, this project unfolds as a guided listening session in which each musical piece is introduced by a story and complemented with video images.

Music acts as a guide to experiencing the landscapes and culture of Amazonia through listening. The presentation creates a sensory journey that moves from ancestral music to the sound technologies of Amazonian sound systems, the aparelhagens. Alongside the performance, a playlist with the music from this session, offering an extended way to experience its soundscape. 

The activity invites the audience to engage with the multiple realities of Amazonia, moving beyond colonial imaginaries that reduce these territories to a tropical forest.

The performance underscores the importance of preservation practices that integrate local human and cultural dynamics. Through sonic manifestations, which act as forms of oral literature, the experiences of Brazilian Amazonian communities become visible, revealing a living, diverse, and constantly transforming Amazonia. Just as there is no ecological balance without social justice, there can be no Amazonia without its cultures.