Sonic Bridge — over/through the wall/fence at the U.S.-Mexican border; a telematic event :: January 23, 2009; 9:30 pm :: Brown Rice, 4332 N. Kedzie Ave., 1st floor, Chicago, IL.

The U.S. Immigration Policy could change soon, since Obama will be sworn into office shortly as the U.S.’s 44th President. Currently hundreds of miles of wall and fence stretch across the US-Mexico border, and the Bush administration is trying to make sure that the border fence gets extended as quickly as possible — in these final waning days of that lame duck administration.

Sound artists and musicians will be part of a Sonic Bridge, a telematic performance that will run perpendicularly through the U.S.-Mexico border wall/fence, in conjunction with sound artists and musicians who live here in the U.S., Central America, and South America. Performers in remote locations will be able to interact with each other in real time. The performers include: Azucena Losana, Amanda Gutierrez, Ezequiel Netri Collective with Tito, Noe Cuellar, Jon Satrom, Colectivo BUENISSSIMO (Agustin Genoud, Josefina Zuain, Valeria Caamaño, and Leonello Zambon), Jeff Albert, Kai Kraatz, Guillermo Gregorio, Matthew Golombisky, Dan Godston, Jorge Crowe, Changorama Collective (Rafael Cauto, Zaratustra Vasquez, and David Somellera), and others.

Although people have many different opinions about what should be done about the U.S.-Mexico border/fence and the U.S.’ Immigration Policy, it is a good that ideas and sound can travel freely across borders.