This new series of large format works examines and displays sound memory through a new "visualization" and/or representation of Field Recordings. It is also a search for new formats to share sound DATA in an exhibition format.

This is something that I have been thinking about for many years, because I have seen the interest that field recordings arouse in the audience/listeners. However, the only way I have ever seen field recordings presented in exhibition format has always been with the use of speakers.

As far as presentation formats for sound recordings are concerned, many of them end up digitally uploaded to specialized websites, digital sound libraries and sound banks... with the problem that these formats are only attractive to people who are dedicated to in some way to sound practices, but not for the general public.

I was very interested in presenting my field recordings in an accessible and interactive format and that is why I thought about drawing the scenes from the recording (of the soundscape), as an artistic piece and for the museum/gallery, and that these drawings would contain the sounds. of the landscape represented (drawn).

SoundScape #1

These "Sound Drawings" want to open listening practices to a larger audience, through the representation of an event, place, action, etc. to be experienced socially and thereby connect through sound and feelings. It is also an approach to sound as a tool to create awareness, knowledge and a deeper connection with a place.

Soundscape #2

 The series of drawings are called SOUNDSCAPES because they are compositions of drawings that represent various situations, places, spaces, actions, points of view...etc. For example, a drawing or SoundScape can be dedicated to a place, such as a city, and therefore have several unique images of various places that together make up the drawing of that city.

Or for example, the drawing is dedicated to an event: a manifestation and has several motifs of that manifestation in the composition.

 

The drawings can have one or multiple audios, and these audios are listened to through headphones at various points in the drawing. At these points, the headphones will be hung directly on the face of the drawing and distributed at various heights and points, allowing several people to listen to various (independent) audios at the same time.If the soundscape of a drawing has several listening points, you will have to listen to all of them to obtain the entire soundscape represented in the drawing.

It is important that the headphones are connected to the drawing with cable (NO Bluetooth or wireless headphones) since the cable acts as an anchor to the drawn scene; something that allows mobility to a certain extent, making you feel connected at all times to the image/representation/landscape... it is an umbilical cord with the situation that is represented, and a link between the piece (image and sound) and the viewer.

This is a project that will be carried out as a series (which will extend over time) and in which I wish to be able to make many of these drawings, whether representing field recordings that I already have in my archive, new and specific recordings and commissions. specials.

SOUNDSCAPE #1 - El Born (2023)

  • Ink on Paper

  • 240X 150cms

  • 5x Stereo Audio Channels

This year, I had the opportunity to premiere this series with the first "SOUNDSCAPE" drawing - a 4m x 1.50m composition made especially for my individual exhibition "Paisatqe Sonor - El Born", which took place at the Convent de Sant Agustí in Barcelona.

For this exhibition I made a special piece dedicated to the Born neighborhood in Barcelona (where the Art Center where the exhibition was held is located). For her, I made sound recordings in this neighborhood for months through sound walks carried out both individually or in groups in workshops with children from the neighborhood.