SOUND ART
HIDDEN PIECES:
CITYWIDE GALLERY
Project carried out at the Acts of Air: Reshaping the urban sonic festival, from the Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) at the University of the Arts London.
http://acts-of-air.crisap.org/artworks.html#bench
'Hidden Pieces' explores the relationships between a city’s occupants and its day-to-day objects, and how this relationship can be changed and reframed through a disrupting agent. The work presents three
“audio tours”, each relating to a common object in the urban landscape: a bench, a bus stop and a lamp post. Through fictitious narratives the artist reveals these everyday items as artworks in a ‘Citywide Gallery’, each made in response to different social, political and philosophical concerns. These stories transform and give new meaning to each object, while prompting an unravelling of the rest of our urban, including the authoritative voices heard within it.
CATASTROPHE PROJECT
Project carried out during the occupation of the Projeto Duna page (@projectduna). Full texts on the page: https://www.instagram.com/projectduna/
Sound description: the graphics of new COVID-19 contagions from each of the Brazilian states are extracted (Source: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, on 05/08) and the curves you see in the video are isolated. These images are then transformed into sound waves using a form of wave synthesis called a Wavetable.
Each sound resulting from the 26 waves is fired in order of when the first case in each state was recorded. The result is what you hear in the video.
Sound Description: The sound waves extracted from the 26 states now remain in their final state, constant. Through a Reverb, a device for synthesizing sound reflections in a simulated space, they soon disappear completely, as if distancing themselves from the person listening. Behind the reverberations you can hear the sound of the next stage, the sound of SILENCE.
Sound Description: Behind the last sound of the reverberation of the synthesized contagion graphics come two new sounds. One is the sound representation of radio waves, generated by particles from the solar winds, colliding with the Earth's magnetic field. The second sound is also a representation, this time of the Sun's natural vibrations resulting from its dynamic surface motions. (Source: NASA) Like waveform graphics, these sounds are representations; transformations of inaudible and irreproducible astronomical waves in the form of sound waves within our range of audible frequencies. These sounds, along with some others, are the sounds of SILENCE. Even when nothing sounds, when nobody speaks, when nothing makes noise, they keep happening. These are some of the most primordial sound representations we can have. They emerged when we didn't exist and will continue to exist long after we have ceased to exist.
1m
Project carried out within the monteaudio20-imagination festival by Forma y Sonido and the Universidad de la República (Uruguay)
http://www.formaysonido.org/ma20-obrasradio.html
How long does it last 1 minute?
Our internal time, our biological rhythm, is highly dependent on the environment and the mental space we occupy. If there is something that brings us joy, time seems to run; after going through a trauma, the time seems to freeze; when waking up, a long space of time could seem extremely short; to project the future, a period that will end in an opening and closing of eyes can seem like an eternity.
And during the social isolation caused by the pandemic?
1m proposes to explore these differences in internal rhythms during this period. 1 minute will be told aloud by different people around the world, at different moments of social isolation, from different socio-economic realities. The recordings of these accounts will be joined in a single audio, while all of them will share at the same time in the first second, becoming less and less synchronous and more dissonant. El Trabajo seeks to highlight the difference in the internal rhythm of each person invited to participate.
The number chosen and the title of the work refer only to the basic temporal measure of one minute, as well as the minimum physical distance recommended by the WHO. This reference will also be reinforced through an auditory simulation of the space in which these recordings will be inserted, moving increasingly farther away from the person who listens; the last remaining voice, with more dilated internal rhythm, turning more distant.
Every minute that passes, every day more (or less) is relative to an ever greater distance from our activities, places, needs and desires, impeded and paralyzed by the situation in which we are living. It is a greater distance from our affections, which we intend to cut through virtual mediation. But there is also a larger space between the beginning of this situation and a smaller space-time up to its fin. How long will the minutes take until this end?