• Arrangement of colourful sticky notes, stuck to a white surface. The legible ones read:

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    Rehearsal documentation. Paula Montecinos Oliva with Megan Hoetger, Eli Wewentxu, and Elisa Batti, Sonic Feminist Fabulations, episode #0, DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam, July 2024. Photo: Megan Hoetger.

  • Detail of an arrangement of colourful sticky notes, stuck to a large white sheet of paper that is laid on the floor. On the left, there are some handwritten notes in orange. The legible sticky notes read:

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    Rehearsal documentation. Paula Montecinos Oliva with Megan Hoetger, Eli Wewentxu, and Elisa Batti, Sonic Feminist Fabulations, episode #0, DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam, July 2024. Photo: Megan Hoetger.

  • Decks and other sound equipment have been set in two low tables and on the floor. A person can be seen squatting next to the larger structure, using a laptop. Someone else is sat by the wall, with a laptop to the left and a deck to the right, which they are adjusting.

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    Rehearsal documentation. Paula Montecinos Oliva with Megan Hoetger, Eli Wewentxu, and Elisa Batti, Sonic Feminist Fabulations, episode #0, DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam, 19 October 2024. Photo: Megan Hoetger.

  • In the backgroud, a person dressed in black is squatting in front of a sound deck and a computer, which they are using. They are holding a microphone to their mouth. At the front, a red coil spiral is stuck to the floor. A thin cable is attached to its center with purple table. Throughout the rest of the space, other sound equipment and colourful cables lie on the floor.

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    Rehearsal documentation. Paula Montecinos Oliva with Megan Hoetger, Eli Wewentxu, and Elisa Batti, Sonic Feminist Fabulations, episode #0, DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam, 19 October 2024. Photo: Megan Hoetger.

  • Two people seem to be playing with a sound installation consisting of two coil spirals stuck to the floor. There are cables attached to both spirals. A booklet is open next to one of them. In the background, a person is lying on the floor. They have their elbows on a pillow and are reading a book or a magazine.

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    Paula Montecinos Oliva with Megan Hoetger, Eli Wewentxu, and Elisa Batti, “Sonic Playground” from Sonic Feminist Fabulations, episode #0, DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam, 19 October 2024. Photo: Thomas Lenden.

  • A coil spiral has been stuck to the white floor with a transparent plastic. There are two cables attached to it, one to the centre and the other to the edge. A person can partially be seen sitting next to it. With their left hand they are holding a small yellow heptagon structure against the spiral. With their right hand, they are touching the spiral through the middle of the structure.

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    Paula Montecinos Oliva with Megan Hoetger, Eli Wewentxu, and Elisa Batti, “Sonic Playground” from Sonic Feminist Fabulations, episode #0, DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam, 19 October 2024. Photo: Thomas Lenden.

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    Paula Montecinos Oliva with Megan Hoetger, Eli Wewentxu (violin), and Elisa Batti, “Sonic Playground” from Sonic Feminist Fabulations, episode #0, DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam, 19 October 2024. Video: Megan Hoetger.

  • Close-up of two coil spirals, stuck to the white floor with a transparent plastic. There are wires coming from each of these spirals, and another wire connecting them both. The arms and a foot of two people can be seen. One person holds a microphone to a magnet, that they have set on one of the spirals. The other person touches the centre of the other spiral.

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    Paula Montecinos Oliva with Megan Hoetger, Eli Wewentxu, and Elisa Batti, “Thought-sounds” from Sonic Feminist Fabulations, episode #0, DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam, 19 October 2024. Photo: Thomas Lenden.

  • A group of people is sitting on the floor or on chairs. They are all facing the same direction. At the front, two people are sitting close together. One of them points to something on the floor, and the other, looking in that direction, holds a microphone to their mouth.

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    Paula Montecinos Oliva with Megan Hoetger, Eli Wewentxu, and Elisa Batti, “Thought-sounds” from Sonic Feminist Fabulations, episode #0, DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam, 19 October 2024. Photo: Thomas Lenden.

  • A person is lying supine on a large black cushion. They have short hair and are wearing a grey sweater. Their hands are covering their ears and their eyes are closed.

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    Paula Montecinos Oliva with Megan Hoetger, Eli Wewentxu, and Elisa Batti, “Listening score” from Sonic Feminist Fabulations, episode #0, DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam, 19 October 2024. Photo: Thomas Lenden.

  • Three people are sitting or lying on black cushions on the floor, next to a white wall. They are sitting in different positions, but are all holding their hands to their ears.

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    Paula Montecinos Oliva with Megan Hoetger, Eli Wewentxu, and Elisa Batti, “Listening score” from Sonic Feminist Fabulations, episode #0, DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam, 19 October 2024. Photo: Thomas Lenden.

  • A red and white spiral that fills up the whole cover of a publication, with its centre slightly to the right. In between the spiral, the title of the publication can be read on the left:

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    Booklet cover. Paula Montecinos Oliva with Megan Hoetger, Eli Wewentxu, and Elisa Batti, Sonic Feminist Fabulations, episode #0, DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam, 19 October 2024.

  • A booklet lies open, showing two white pages, each with some text and a line illustration, in dark red. On the left page the title reads:

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    Interior booklet pages. Paula Montecinos Oliva with Megan Hoetger, Eli Wewentxu, and Elisa Batti, Sonic Feminist Fabulations, episode #0, DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam, 19 October 2024.

  • Round tarot card. In its outer edge, we can read

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    Card 0: The Fool from the Mother Peace tarot deck.

  • Episode no. 0 listen-back with Radio WORM 

  • Paula Montecinos Oliva artist website 

  • Sonic Feminist Fabulations website 

Episode #0 is guided by the tarot card of The Fool･:*:･ﾟwhich  invites us to listen to with an open heart through the noise, the error and the uncertainty, and to extend listening across space and time.

Sonic Feminist Fabulations (SFF) is a live on-air radio performance that experiments with the poetics and politics of displacement and diasporic (ecological) memories. The project was initiated by sound artist and choreographer Paula Montecinos Oliva in 2022 as a response to radio’s unique capacity to stretch and contract time, creating connections between invisible listeners across spaces, contexts, and coexisting temporalities. In 2024, Hoetger joined the project as an active collaborator, helping to conceive and develop aspects of the episodes, as well as the broader SFF framework, together with Montecinos Oliva.

Sonic Feminist Fabulations, episode no. 0 was produced on 19 October 2024 within the frame of the THIRD Forum at DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam. The episode was realized in collaboration with Eli Wewentxu who contributed a live violin performance to the episode, and Elisa Batti who assisted with the radio broadcast livestream. Special thanks as well to Annieck Kleizen for her production support on the performance.

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