Camila Salcedo is an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator, community organizer, and arts educator currently based in Toronto. She uses memory as a methodology for reshaping the past, enacting through the present, and creating new futures. Through do-it-yourself patchworks, she attempts to weave together her view of the world, while questioning systems, authorities and institutions that were created to define us such as gender, identity, and nations.

Sounds of Caracas is an audio work that is part of the Alternate Reality series, through which the artist explores the use of memory as a means of remapping and filling digital voids in information in relation to her home city of Caracas, Venezuela. The audio work appropriates sounds from videos of the natural life from distinct regional-specific sounds she grew up around such as the calls of birds called “guacamayas” and “guacharacas”, the nighttime cry of small frogs, and the daytime heat-driven cicadas, among other distinct sounds that are naturally part of the sonic landscape. She brings these together in a soundscape with field recorded sounds of the Corso Italia neighbourhood in Toronto which is home to many Latin American immigrants, in this way creating a hybridized "reality" of the Venezuelan sonic landscape. The audio work is accompanied by gifs made of appropriated images of natural life.

This artwork draws from the following sources:

Guacamayas de Caracas by NELSON SAYEGH

El canto de la #Guacharaca by Ing. Javier Antonio Arroyo Montiel

Guacamayo Azul y Amarillo Cantando Sonido para Llamar El Mejor by adalaves

Chicharra by Allen Chanto

MARCHA O CANCIÓN DE HELADOS EFE by José Espinoza

Sonido de Ranitas de Caracas by Andreina Machado

SONIDO DE GRILLOS EN LA NOCHE by SOUND EFECT FX