Grieta57 (2025)
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This work explores how spaces transform into places through sensory engagement and historical awareness, examining the bonds formed between humans and their geographic, material, and subjective environments.
It proposes a mutual constituency through which these seemingly separate domains exist fluidly, continuously (re)defining one another. Using visual and auditory markers from personal history, the work intends to reflect on the dynamics of self-understanding on the individual level and that of social bodies as integral organs of the fragmented, often conflicting physical, cultural, and psychological terrains we inhabit.
The installation consists of four steel sound sculptures with speakers attached, as well as an Arduino-based MIDI controller equipped with ultrasonic sensors. These sensors detect hand gestures to manipulate live and pre-recorded sounds in real time, affecting parameters of processes such as spectral morphing between looping and live environmental sound, convolution reverb, and dynamic routing.
Each sculpture sonically represents a specific real-world space through dedicated instances of a convolution reverb effect: the inside of Tejuino's car, a towering mausoleum in Mezquitán cemetery, a stairwell, and an unnamed site. As gestures are captured, the audio signals are routed dynamically to the different objects while the timbral characteristics of the sounds, along with the artificial emulations of real spaces, are affected. This results in layered auditory impressions of these spaces, altered by both physical interaction, digital processing and the acoustic environment of the installation site itself.
The installation encourages participants to engage bodily with the system, emphasizing conscious interaction, free association with the graphic and sonic elements, and encouraging the exploration of dissonance and ambiguity in meaning-making.
Special thanks to
@sanchez1000_ for recording the impulse responses in Jalisco, which were loaded into the convolution reverb instances assigned to each steel object.
I'll post a video demonstrating the functioning of the piece soon.
Photographs by Tomas Soucek @ Puncture Index
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