In the Open Air of Sound. Modulations of Noise and Listening in Recent Argentine Poetry

Abstract

In this paper, I address the reinterpretation of the National Anthem that Leónidas Lamborghini published in 1975. In this poem, noise represents a fundamental axis for the composition of the poem and it functions as a methodological guideline for the rewriting operation. On this basis, I wonder about the modulations of noise and listening in current poetry, and the possibility of considering noise as a figure that summons different language policies. As a variation of Lamborghini's perspective, I analyze two books in which Gabriel Reches works with the public speeches that Mauricio Macri and María Eugenia Vidal gave during their government. In these, I believe there is an inverse but complementary approach: poetry as a way to clear the cacophony of politics. Further on, I analyze the noise reduction politics present in Argentine objectivism based on Giannuzzi's “Poética” to consider, then, the possibility of a noisy alternative based on two books by Diego Vdovichenko. Finally, I focus on Edición Bilingüe, by Silvana Franzetti, to formulate a conception of language from a kind of listening associated with noise. The theoretical framework is made up of specific studies on the subject in a broad sense (Attali, 1995; Cussen, 2009; Hendy, 2013; Murray Shafer, 2013; Russolo, 2021). Methodologically, I refer mainly to the critical works of Ana Porrúa (2001, 2011), Gerardo Jorge (2015), Nancy Fernández (2020) and Martín Prieto (2006).