José Alejandro Rivera — Co-Regulating The Spectrum: Meanwhile
Reviewed by Chenoa Baker

The sound of water, high frequencies, radio-like static, and the toggling of unidentified objects. An immersive experience of Co-Regulating The Spectrum: Meanwhile combines multiple identities that creator Jose Rivera known as “Proxima '' holds. It is a fusion of overstimulation. There are words of Spanish and English sound bites that collide and abstract. It allows the viewer to stumble through wayfinding. As he writes the piece depicts “the wave is a radiophonic river of shifting reflections across neurodivergence and consciousness studies, radio and radar via the electromagnetic spectrum, language and communication, ufology and ET lore, and diasporic musings regarding the political and cultural history of [Boriken].”

Some of the recognizable audio words include “Most of it is invisible,” “let it flow through you,” “that’s what the spectrum piece is,” and “sensory processing,” “each idiosyncratic in its own light.” It stitches together a multisensory experience that mimics neurodivergence and the phenomenon that occurs from spatial sound which Ian [last name], MIT Professor calls, “something beyond having speakers in your space but a reminder of your place in the world. While we all have different experiences (varying frequencies), we all can connect through experiencing waveforms and using sound (or vibrational activity for Deaf folks) to understand the world around us.