In the workshop we have reflected in a practical and playful way on the collective construction of a reflection through the logic of remixing, one of the powerful tools of contemporary storytelling.

Starting from Diana Deutsch's Speech-to-Song Illusion to place ourselves in an intermediate space between words and music, we have built a sound cartography based on the reflective experience of the students participating in Palmar Álvarez-Blanco's seminar "Contemporary Spanish Fictional Essay". This seminar includes several workshops with different social collectives, artists and audiovisual essayists, Antropoloops was one of the invited agents.

Palmar wanted to close its course with an exercise of collaborative recycling of ideas that would value all the senses involved in the configuration of knowledge. To put this objective into practice we decided that each student would select a quote from one of the theoretical readings they had done throughout the course, a quote that had moved or impacted them in some way. The week of the workshop each student explained to the group the reasons for selecting their quote and recorded it on audio. After a first listening phase with the whole class present, we chose as a group the most interesting fragments of each audio -either for its sound quality or for its content-; once the fragments of each student were selected, the class composed a collective graphic reflection of results thought from the theme of the course: the capitalist culture and the socio-environmental consequences of the inoculation of this harmful economic paradigm.

After reflecting on where we could place each of the quotes in the world, depending on their author or where they led us, and associating images to them, with the fragments of the quotes uploaded to play, each of the two groups composed a piece of music and prepared a score to play it in front of the class. It was interesting because without planning it one group composed their piece focusing more on the sonic qualities of the loops of their voices, and the other composed the piece focusing more on the textual contents of the loops. Between these two extremes, speech and song, we were experimenting (and playing a lot ;) around the methodological objective of the Palmar course: to recreate an experience of collective knowledge from the exercise of recycling.