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The Latin adverb sic ("thus") is used in written texts to indicate that the word or phrase that precedes it is literal, no matter if it is or may appear as incorrect. Considered as one of the most insane projects of the History of Experimental Music in Mexico, (SIC) works with extreme improvisation and savage-gestural composition - possessed by the rituals from the cave, but with the conscious of silence and meditation -, merging antique practices as the primigenius intuition, channeling and self-induced alienation. The sound of (SIC) and their genetic vision applied to music, is embodied in concise miniature pieces, led by a wide range of guttural convulsions, buccal tremors and other cries coming from the depths of unexistent languanges, imagined to serve as a framework for contemporary rites remaining to be invented. (SIC) has previously performed in Berlin, Paris, Geneva and Vilnius; and in museums and festivals in Mexico extensively. Their work has been included in the Norient Exhibition "Seismographic Sounds - Visions of a New World" at Transmediale, ZKM Karlsruhe, among others. About (SIC) members: JULIAN BONEQUI (Mexico 1974, drums and vocals), is a hybrid artist specialized in electroacoustic music and 3D narratives. As musician he has performed under the conduction of the London Improvisers Orchestra, Berlin Improvisers Orchestra, William Parker, Tarek Atoui, Vagina Dentata Organ, and with Ute Wassermann, Paal Nilssen-Love, Gudrun Gut and Joachim Irmler, among others. In 2015 his music was launched into space by the australian project “Forever Now” alongside artists as Pierre Henry and Mats Gustafsson. Founder of Audition Records [Berlin-Mexico], as guest curator has worked with Akouphène Festival in Geneva; Salon Bruit in Berlin, and in Mexico with the Ex Teresa Museum and with the Center of Digital Culture. As a professor has taught new-media art education in Mexico City, and in the Master Degree of Animation of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, where he has collaborated in Research Groups of Interactive Technologies and of Neurocience working with Mixed Reality. Awarded by CTM 2017 Radio Lab Call Festival in collaboration with Deutschlandradio Kultur. Bonequi currently works on his first 3D Opera with the Support Program for Production and Research in Art and Media of the National Centre for the Arts in Mexico City, as well as coordinator of the artist-in-residence project produced by Audition Records at GIS. RODRIGO AMBRIZ (Mexico 1983, vocals & electronics) is considered one of the most talented vocal performers in Mexico. He has collaborated deeply in the growing experimental/mexican scene with noisers and improvisers from different stylistic contexts including .RR, Los Heraldos Negros, Juanjose Rivas, Germán Bringas, Fernando Vigueras, Angélica Castelló, Arthur Henry Fork, Ute Wassermann, Jaap Blonk, Burkhard Stangl, and Joachim Montessuis, among many others. He has published in labels such as Ruido Horrible, NoxaRecs, Audition Records and Suplex, all in Mexico. "My way to approach sound is this phonic-waste voragine; grunts, suffocated exhalations, shriekings, whispers, squawks and screams. I'm focused on deconstructing, alter and multiply the phonic material. The first thing that interests me about the voice is the physical sensation that comes from manipulating the vocal apparatus, the air travel of the internal cavities, the tremors in different parts of the body, the stresses and strains, and the voice that exists previous to language. All these brings me to a primary state. I'm interested in the voice as generator of a constant flow of dizzying associations, immersed in a channel of automatism and glossolalia."

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