Between April 23 and 25, Argentine anthropologist Facundo Petit visited Chile to participate in a series of activities focused on the connection between sound, territory, and ethnographic experience. His visit to Santiago began with the talk “Field Recording in Anthropology: Recording Sounds, Documenting Experiences,” held at the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art. During the talk, he addressed the history of sound recording in ethnography, the technological advances involved, and the changes these have generated in the way we relate to territories and communities.

Subsequently, the workshop “Sound Ethnographies” was held, which included a field trip to the Mercado de la Vega to record in an urban context.Posteriormente, se desarrolló el taller Etnografías sonoras, que incluyó una salida a terreno al Mercado de la Vega para realizar registros en contexto urbano. The process concluded with a final session in a hybrid format at Mayor University, where lessons learned and collective reflections on the work carried out were shared.

All of these activities are part of the Fondecyt project “From Sound to Listening: Theories and Methods in Aural Studies,” led by CMUS researcher Natalia Bieletto.