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What: Decolonial Devices and Community Sound Design: Seizing the Means of Production

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Lita Vinueza is an Ecuadorian-American Artist, DJ, and Creative Technologist whose work synthesizes sound, code, hardware, and design to engineer instruments that center social and political justice through a decentralized sonic framework rooted in open-source education, decolonial design, accessibility, and community knowledge.

Her ongoing musical series, Sonic Liberation Devices (S.L.Ds), stands as a pioneering movement in the field of electronic music and creative technology, where musical inventions become tools for care, protest, and sonic resistance. Each device functions as both an artwork and a technology of liberation, reframing the role of electronic instruments in shaping more equitable futures.

The first in the series, The Palestine Drum Liberator, is the world’s first braille-based, battery-powered drum machine designed for protest. The instrument incorporates textures readable by touch, regionally recorded percussion, and cultural symbolism—such as color-coded cables that reference liberation movements across the Global South. Portable and open-source, it embodies a design philosophy that centers those too often excluded from the tools of music-making, transforming sound into a vehicle for visibility, empathy, collective action, and sonic solidarity.

As a DJ and performer, Lita has become a vital force in New York’s nightlife, known for genre-defying sets that blend experimental electronics and diasporic rhythms. Her performances move beyond the dancefloor, transforming sound into a living language of connection, remembrance, and freedom. Whether building instruments from scratch, performing live, or teaching others how to code and create, Lita’s practice weaves together art, activism, and community, guided by the belief that sound serves as both an archive of memory and an instrument of liberation.

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