Silencio en llamas celebrates two years of spreading emerging poetry and experimental music

Two years after its creation, Silence on fire has been consolidated in a space where resistance converges with underground.

Emerged as a radio project on the Internet to disseminate non-canonical and emerging poetry, as well as experimental music, in a short time its scope extended to the audiovisual format and the organization of meetings dedicated to that pair of expressions.

On the occasion of this second anniversary, its production team seeks to create a documentary archive of the poetic and sound emergence of the country’s capital, explains its director, producer and host, the poet Natalia Pedroza.

In addition, he adds, it is planned to extend its scope of action to the rest of the Republic – to date it is focused on Mexico City – and film a documentary on what is happening in the country with that pair of aspects.

“What is intended is to make visible everything that is not within the canon of poetry or the medium of awards, as well as experimental music, since this is a scene that, although it has more and more spaces, remains marginal.”

In an interview, the creator (Mexico City, 1998) highlights that this project seeks to bring these types of artistic proposals closer to a diverse audience, not only to connoisseurs. It clarifies that, in the case of creators, the only requirement to participate is “to have interesting proposals.”

Expanding project

Silence on fire It was born in August 2023 as an Internet radio program produced from an apartment in the Iztacalco mayor’s office. It began its broadcasts on Radio Veintiocho (www.radio28.net), a digital platform based in Cholula, Puebla, dedicated to disseminating emerging musical talent. That domestic space was insufficient after a video production team was added to the project. In March 2025 he moved to the Radio Nopal studio, in the Chilanga capital.

From then on, it is broadcast live on the last Tuesday of each month, at 5 p.m., on that Internet station (www.radionopal.com), and deferred the next day on Radio Veintiocho, at 8 p.m. Likewise, the audiovisual version is available two weeks after the radio broadcast, on the YouTube channel @silencioenllamasx

Each program includes a poet and a musical project. The curatorship, Natalia Pedroza details, “is not only seeing which poet or artists to invite, but also linking them in some way: what poetry can go with which musician so that they become potent.”

After two years, the sessions have received more than 50 poets and as many musicians, in addition to participating in a sound liberation front for Palestine in collaboration with Radio Alhara, which brought together more than 30 Mexican and Latin American artists.

The growth of Silence on fire It has also involved holding live events, such as poetry collection presentations and concerts in collaboration with a cultural support network that includes the Tambor and Polilla bookstores in the country’s capital.

With a presence on the social networks Facebook and Instagram, the project has operated in a self-managed manner from the beginning and to date is not monetized.

“It is a gift to have this space, but it has also involved a lot of resistance,” says its director and producer, who adds that the priority is to make it self-sufficient and remunerated.

“The majority of those who participated in the project are from the lower class. Everything has been possible thanks to the community. It is said that art is a place of privilege, but currently the majority of emerging artists are from the working class. Something we seek is to create a dignified space for ourselves as artists,” he concludes.