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"Música de archivo" It was built originally for an installation that consisted of two cabinets that contain two different narratives. One was the "narrative of the nation" and the other one the "personal narrative". The title of the installation piece was: Música de Archivo. I would like to keep this title for the sound piece as well. I always work my sounds for installation with my friend Brian. We have been working together for many years now.

Jacqueline Herranz Brooks is a Cuban author and interdisciplinary artist based in Queens, New York. Her work takes various forms including documentary photography, soundscape interpretation, multimedia installation, and urban interventions. Jacqueline, who is interested in the processes of fictionalization of memory, is the author of Liquid Days (Argentina, 1997), Escenas para Turistas (New York, 2003), Mujeres sin Trama (New York, 2011) y Viaje en Almendrón (Installation book). Jacqueline has been collaborating with Brian Buchanan of Leithal Music in building spaces through sound interpretation for several years. 

Brian C Buchanan. Electronic artist living in Edinburgh, UK with netlabel releases: Faturenet, dystopiaq, HAZE & Petroglyph. Photographer for the collection: El cuerpo en la calle (UK) and sound creator for the NY exhibition: Maldita Pared. https://soundcloud.com/leithal

Jacqueline’s Connection to SEQ: My connection with South East Queens goes back to the first time I visited New York from Havana in the late 90s. I was invited to the city to participate in a conference sponsored by the now defunct CUNY Caribbean Exchange Program, and during those days of conferences I met two scholars, Sonia Rivera-Valdés and Daisy Cocco de Filippis, and a writer, Margarita Drago, who were teaching at York College back then. They took me there one Saturday morning to talk to a group of students, who had created the Spanish Writers Club, about my experience as an alternative writer living in the island and working with different media. York, and the Jamaica area, surprised me for being such a culturally diverse environment and a vibrant place. Since then, I have been coming back to Jamaica, Queens, and to York College for different reasons: to study first and now to teach in the World Languages Department. And over the last 5 years, I have resided in Richmond Hill.