Ivan L. Munuera
Sonic Kinships #3. SOPHIE, Immaterial (2018)
KoozArch
Fall, 2025
SOPHIE’s “Immaterial” (2018) is a manifesto for the disintegration of boundaries — between bodies, genders, technologies, and architectures. Propelled by crystalline beats and a voice stretched beyond recognition, the song refuses the stability of human flesh and instead performs what Jack Halberstam has described as the “wildness” of trans bodies: forms that resist containment, that undo the logics of normativity by insisting on transition. Trans embodiment is a refusal of coherence: to be unbuildable. In this sense, “Immaterial” is a sonic architecture of José Esteban Muñoz’s queer utopias or queer futurities, dissolving the walls that keep gender and space in their “proper” places.