LA MEMORIA DE LOS MUROS
Multichannel sound installation.Length: 18:00 mins. Casa Wabi (Residency project) 2016
This project was carried out at the facilities of Fundación Casa Wabi, in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Casa Wabi was designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando (Pritzker '95).
¨La Memoria de los Muros¨ is a study on the acoustics of an architectural work and the way in which sound reacts to it. Music and sound are used as tools to measure and perceive the dimensions, materials and physical characteristics of the building, which is achieved by recording sounds in every space of the house. Subsequently, those recordings are manipulated and converted into a sound representation of the architectural work.
The project concludes with a multichannel sound installation presented inside an acoustically controlled space (outside Casa Wabi). In a system of hi-fi speakers, the recordings made inside the architecture are reproduced, providing the opportunity to transport the listener and to experience their different spaces. In this way it is possible to feel and live an architectural work, appreciating it through the hearing.
The audience will listen to the daily sounds of its inhabitants. They'll notice the sonority of the natural environment that surrounds it and witness the execution of a series of musical instruments interpreted by folkloric musicians of the coast of Oaxaca.
As a contribution to the preservation and dissemination of the cultural diversity of Mexico, a sound document will be generated that will contain a record of the traditional music of these region.
These ethnomusicological recordings will be donated to the Casa Wabi Foundation, the National Sound Library and the National Center for Musical Research, Documentation and Information of Mexico.
LA MEMORIA DE LOS MUROS.
Instalation excerpt #1 (Audio)
Instalation excerpt #2 (Audio)
