Throughout the 20th century, a vast yet discontinuous series of experiments, in addition to musical and artistic influences from other countries, gave birth to musical works and sound art pieces that question any coherence or linear development in contemporary Mexican music. The result is a collision between tradition and modernity, in the context of a ghostly musical past made up of the monumental ornaments of the nationalist cultural discourse and its different collapses. These fractures and implosions represent the ephemeral utopias of today's Mexican music.

A collective talk between Carlos Prieto Acevedo, curator of this year’s "Critical Constellations of the Audio-Machine in Mexico" exhibition, and three musicians active in Mexico’s experimental music scene.