Featuring:
Colaboración Cubana
Reynier Rodriguez Ribalta: Cuban Art Educator
María Isabel Moinelo Hernández: Cuban Music Educator and Guitarist
Leonie Roessler: German Composer, Sound Artist, Radio maker
2026
Featured Transmission(s):
- Aired on May 22nd 20:15 CEST 2026
- Todos sus voces I
- Genre: Radio Art, Socio-Political
- Duration: 15 min
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When the United States aggravated their illegal embargo against Cuba with the blockade in January of 2026, life was altered drastically on the island. Ships bringing oil and other goods to Cuba were intercepted by the US military, throwing the island into an acute state of emergency.
Leonie was supposed to fly to Cuba in February to teach courses in field recording and composition at the Universidad de Ciencias Pedagógicas Enrique José Varona. At the same time, a sonic postcard exchange project between the Prinsehagheschool elementary school in The Hague and the Academía I-SABER in Havana had been prepared. As a direct consequence of the blockade, Leonie could not fly to Cuba since airplanes could not longer lift off the ground in Cuba. The country had run out of kerosene, and the children’s music academy I-SABER had to cancel their classes because they no longer had electricity for their E-Pianos and loudspeakers.
What followed were many conversations, exchanges about the situation, a fundraiser for a solar system for Academía I-SABER (with the generous collaboration of BUG Radio, LOOS Foundation, and the Solidariteitsnetwerk voor Cuba in Amsterdam). And out of it all grew this small project, for which our friends and colleagues Reynier Ribalta and María Isabel Moinelo Hernández, both educators in art and music, sent sounds of daily life during the time of the blockade. Sounds of life, education, and music continuing under adverse conditions.
Leonie tied their sonic contribution together with a recording she took of the Caribbean Sea in Havana in 2024. A sound that most likely stayed the same through the blockade.
- Airing on May 23rd 02:25 CEST
- Todos sus voces II
- Genre: Socio-Political
- Duration: 15 min
- Todos sus voces II
