Ver las voces, escuchar al fuego
Salinas, Puerto Rico
2019 - 2020
For this project I collaborated with mexican noise musician Alina Hernández in which we created a cave in a rural part of the town of Salinas, Puerto Rico.
In this cave we made some sound interventions that were recorded and edited. A strong parameter that we set for the collaboration was to only document the project with sound and photography.
“El oído es la percepción más arcaica en el decurso de la historia personal -está incluso antes que el olor, mucho antes que la visión- y se alía con la noche.”
Pascal Quidnard
In this cave we made some sound interventions that were recorded and edited. A strong parameter that we set for the collaboration was to only document the project with sound and photography.
Para este proyecto en colaboración con el músico Alina Hernández (Tabasco,México 1989) cavamos una cueva en un terreno en el pueblo de Salinas, Puerto Rico. En esta cueva, concebida como un espacio/instrumento, realizamos unas intervenciones sonoras que fueron grabadas y editadas. Estas grabaciones fueron una serie de improvisaciones con unos instrumentos conocidos como Tjunrungas y sintetizando sonido a partir de sensores.
“El oído es la percepción más arcaica en el decurso de la historia personal -está incluso antes que el olor, mucho antes que la visión- y se alía con la noche.”
Pascal Quidnard
Another important subjet in the cave project was using an ancient instrument that resonated with both the lightning and the thunder as a refference for the quote showed above, thus we came opun the Tjurungas or Bullroarrers. An instrument used by traditional societies, especially by the pastors to communicate in the distance. Tied at one end to a rope, it is rotated in the air in wide circular motions, causing friction with the air and rotation of the object. Tjurungas is an instrument used by traditional societies, especially by pastors, until not long ago, and has passed to popular culture with the name of churinga, rhombus or buzzer. It is a useful used to communicate in the distance, although some shepherds call it "wolfscarrer", a very eloquent name for its use. And it is that the bramadera emits a hoarse sound, a low hum, like a bellow. Tied at one end to a rope, it is rotated in the air in wide circular motions, causing friction with the air and rotation of the object. In the produced sound we can appreciate different notes in each bramadera, the sounds will be different depending on the length of the string and the intensity of the movement with which we turn the bramadera.