This project leans towards defragmentation, distemporalization, and recontextualization focusing on processes with non-strict aims on starting or ending points. It is presented in the format of a sound installation integrated in the space using sound generating objects distributed in a certain radius that compose a variable counterpoint depending on its position and on the receptors’ location. These sound objects are mainly assemblies of mechanical structures built with motors and recycling resonance elements, texts and field recordings, all manipulated with voltage and digital controllers.  

With a thematic concept based on an almost paranoid suggestion of our reality, I intend to reflect environmental and social aspects of our times interwoven with art, physicality, and abstraction, images and sounds, conceptual arrangements, the unpredictability of events and take all this as the basis for building a kind of sound society that surrounds us in a room of thoughts...  

As we are experiencing it progressively and at a potentialized speed, the level of (digital) consumption has been increasing. Transnational corporations have introduced tools for users that have become indispensable for operating in society. In parallel, these needed technological “developments” are harmful to our environment, but industry is growing in power and capitalist ambition. This project consists of taking a step back and looking after mechanical and almost obsolete technology, extracting/recycling material to reassemble the above-mentioned “sound society” in an accurate tuning and trying to refer to future times when organisms function in harmony with each other, unafraid to interact and to conglomerate. On its own, this piece comes to life having the characteristic to speak by generating percussive polyrhythms, frequencies of wide range, and controlled feedback melodies in a visually sensitive and sometimes interactive display.

Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKQjRS4lRfk

Visual artist and artistic assistant: Lena Czerniawska 
 
Contributors: Viola Yip, Kamil Korolczuk, Nicola L. Hein, Björn Erlach 
Acknowledgements: Emilio Gordoa Salazar and Georgina Rodriguez

Emilio Gordoa (MX) is a composer, sound artist, and percussionist/vibraphonist based in Berlin since 2012. He is involved in numerous projects including his work as a soloist and in collaboration with theater, dance, performance, and other interdisciplinary frameworks. Emilio focuses especially on experimental music, sound art, noise, free jazz, improvisation, and contemporary music. In recent years his work has also been notable in the form of installations and has been presented worldwide, on the streets, in prisons, galleries, and concert halls. In 2016 he founded the platform/label WildSonico.