FUNA is an ongoing exploration of sound as a relational and living medium, where memory, desire, and ecological forces intersect. The project unfolds within what Rei defines as the “absolute after”. An open terrain left by collapse, where structures have dissolved yet their residues continue to resonate. In this space, absence is not empty, but charged, inhabited by traces, tensions, and latent possibilities.
Each work within FUNA evolves through processes akin to erosion, sedimentation, and renewal. Rather than reconstructing what has been lost, the project attends to what remains, allowing fragments to reorganize into unstable forms. Rooted in Latin American, Chilean, and Mapuche histories, FUNA engages with silenced narratives and disrupted cosmologies, translating them into sonic matter without attempting resolution.
Through granular synthesis, spectral processing, EVP techniques, and field recordings, sound is treated as a breathing, mutable, porous, and vulnerable organism. Feedback loops, glitches, and artifacts are not corrected but embraced as compositional agents, revealing fractures within both technological systems and human perception.
Listening, within FUNA, becomes an embodied encounter with persistence and decay: a slow negotiation between collapse and continuity, where sound does not represent meaning but carries it. Fragmented, unresolved, and alive.

released January 27, 2026

Produced and mixed by Laika Rei
Mastered by Giacomo Bisaro (No-oN)
Artwork by Alex Ortiga (SY/N)