No Ritmo da Terra is the second chapter in Lua Viana’s sonic trilogy centered around the works of Ailton Krenak. Under her moniker Antropoceno, Viana confronts the legacy of colonialism and environmental destruction in Brazilian society.
Articulating the “Ancestral Future" as an aesthetic project, Viana challenges anthropocentric views of the world in the face of climate change -- conceiving humanity as an organism separate from the body of Earth. Incorporating Ailton's philosophy through sound design, No Ritmo da Terra manipulates elements of Brazilian Folk Music and Amazonian field recordings with Post-Rock, Glitch, and Avant-Garde Metal.
Written and performed in Portuguese, Tupi, and Yoruba, Viana recontextualizes Candomblé and Capoeira chants to create a dialogue between ancestrality and futurism while showing the impact of their collision.
No Ritmo da Terra promotes an ontological realignment with nature through the recovery of technologies developed by cultures that remained attached to the earth -- A necessary mechanism of survival from the erasure of subjectivities in the colonial process.
The message within is clear:
We must listen to those who came before us, and dance in the rhythm of the earth if we hope to survive.
