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sONglineS DowSerS Issue 1 is a journey into Shadow Work and the healing tradition of Karelian Lamenting, focusing on the relationship between alchemy and resistance within the urban context and ritual lament as a narrative strategy for facilitating expressions of pónos, and techniques of “truth claiming”, for performed speech-acts.

In this first issue of sONglineS DowSerS, successive processes of mourning and lamenting function for engraving traces from the environment as the feasibility for sensory wail to penetrate the body — the sound as a river that carries and transmutes emotions.

This Issue features a podcast with three magicians of transmuting shadows: Veronica Mota from Mexico and Berlin, Emilia Kallonen and Eero Peltonen from Finnish and Karelian traditions; along with the soundscapes of artists Espectra Negra, Garazi Gorostiaga, Nazaré Soares, Andreas Elvenes, Andrew Stuart-Buttle, and Ambient Light.

Participants:

Emilia Kallonen (Finland) is a folksinger and folk music pedagog. She practices lamenting as a performing artist and a teacher of lament history, tradition, and practice in Finland. She is a chairman of the Finnish association Voices of the Crying ["Äänellä itkijät ry."] which aims to cherish and revive Karealian lamenting tradition in modern Finland.

Eero Peltonen (Finland) explores the historical and mythological aspects of Finno-Ugric, Finno-Baltic and Scandinavian traditions. His work as a healer is based on Finnish and Karelian traditional healing practices. These are his main source of hid healing skills, knowledge, and techniques.

Verónica Mota Galindo (Mexico) is a writer, sound artist, musician, body art performer, activist and teacher based in Berlin. After doing Philosophy studies in Mexico City, she/they worked as journalist and radio producer in Mexico, the US and Germany focusing on socio-political, gender & cultural themes. Currently, she/they work as part of the AHACk: Sarah Connor Has a Dream zine collective which publishes their/hers written text on technology, transhumanism, cyberpunk, feminism & Capitalist Realism. She operates also under the name Espectra Negra in the dark ambient, ritualistic, techno and post-industrial Berlin's music scene. As an activist, she/they work mainly spreading technological, critical and political content online as well as giving community based workshops on music production, collective healing and Techno-shamanism.

Featuring artwork by Hugo Lloyd Winder