Lita Vinueza

Lita Vinueza, also known as LITA, is an Ecuadorian-American artist, DJ, and creative technologist whose work explores sound as a site of resistance, care, and collective power. Her practice sits at the intersection of music technology, hardware design, and community engagement, using sound to question who technology is built for and who it listens to.

She is the founder of Sonic Liberation Devices (S.L.Ds), an ongoing project and collective dedicated to designing socially and politically conscious musical instruments. S.L.Ds creates custom hardware that merges sound engineering, creative coding, and decolonial design, with a focus on accessibility, sustainability, and public use. The project’s first device, The Palestine Drum Liberator, is a portable, battery-powered drum machine developed for protest, performance, and collective play, serving as both an instrument and a tool for political expression.

Across installations, live performances, workshops, and public talks, Vinueza’s work treats sound technology as an evolving practice rather than a fixed product. Her approach emphasizes open-source learning, collaborative making, and the belief that music technologies can function as infrastructures for community, storytelling, and liberation.

Through S.L.Ds and her DJ practice, Vinueza continues to build tools and spaces that invite participation, challenge extractive systems, and imagine new futures for sound, technology, and collective care.