Sonifying Nepantla is an investigation of Chicana feminist/scholar/spirit activist Gloria E. Anzaldúa's theory of Nepantla: “Bridges are thresholds to other realities, archetypal, primal symbols of shifting consciousness. They are passageways, conduits, and connectors that connote transitioning, crossing borders, and changing perspectives. Bridges span liminal (threshold) spaces between worlds, spaces I call nepantla, Nahuatl word meaning tierra entre medio. Transformations occur in this in-between space, an unstable, unpredictable, precarious, always-in-transition space lacking clear boundaries.”[1] [1] Anzaldúa, Gloria, and AnaLouise Keating. 2002. This bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation. New York: Routledge. What are the tensions that exist in and around Nepantla? With the understanding that the practice of field recording is an act of performing/giving attention to culture, Sonifying Nepantla is an attempt to translate theory into sonic space by way of experimental, poetic sound art. In collaboration with poet Tc Tolbert, and interdisciplinary artist Tory Rosen, this composition explores threshold spaces of gender, racial identity, voltage, international/national boundaries and borders, life/death, amplitude, frequency, and sound/silence.