NOISE POETICS

Creative Sound by Ángel Jacinto

Artist
Statement

I am an artist creating at the intersection of culture and sound. In a world of digital images, I create memory archives of the places I visit with a handheld recorder.

Sound has been subordinate to vision since the popularization of film with sound. Thus, there is a modern understanding of sound production as complementary to reality instead of critical. We have accepted as truth that sound helps us feel while only vision can confirm reality. However, sound orients us into our perceived reality faster than vision: it is sound that we believe reveals presence or absence in a room, the perceived gender of those we hear speak, the distance between us, and more.

In my practice, I create sonic environments by experimenting with sound in-studio utilizing my voice, a mix of pre-recorded or improvised music, sound effects, and field recordings with the help of portable recorders, MIDI controllers, soft instruments, and digital audio workstations.

RECENT WORK

Sound Editing & Design

ABOUT

Ángel Jacinto Escalante is a computer musician, performer, field recordist, and sound editor/designer. He's from Guanajuato, México, and the Nuevo León/Texas border, and has been based in New York City since 2016.

Ángel co-founded the now defunct Nene Records, a Mexican netlabel from the early 2000s. During this time he was the host of Baladosis, an online radio show that showcased música rebajada, the Mexican version of Houston's chopped and screwed, through the online radio project El Tostador de Nene Records.

He has released experimental and electronic music under the name of 6 días and 6 daze for the last 15 years, online and through cassette labels such as Hermitage Tapes and Green Records. Alongside long time creative partner, Valis Ortiz, Ángel co-produced and released EPs and LPs through Nene Records, S-S Records, Skulltones Records, and Monofonus Press from 2007 to 2012 and has fronted several bands and noise projects in Mexico and the United States, such as Mamá Burger, XYX, Penetración Cósmica, Las Urracas, and Night Mirror. Most recently, Ángel was a member of Flamenco Rosado, a Queer flamenco cuadro, or ensemble, collaborating as a singer, lyricist, composer, and music producer.

Under the nickname Plenilunix, Ángel has been a field recordist from the beginning of the covid pandemic. His work has been featured on Framework Radio, and he has collaborated with the project Cities and Memory, in Oxford, UK. Upon becoming a filmmaker in 2023, as a Third World Newsreel fellow, and as part of the Creatives Rebuild New York artist program, Ángel has sound designed and sound supervised short films En Común: Bookloving y Organizing (2024), and Rza Flournoy's Come by Here (2025).

CURRENTLY

Working on

An experimental sound online radio station! Stay tuned!
Sound editing & design for Danite Arefaine's Burnt Honey.
Calling in more fun work! Drop me a line at

noiseispoetry (at) proton.me