The decision to make an instrument like this is influenced by a number of factors that come from the interaction of the senses in relation to the stone as an interface.
The multisensoriality used in a resonating entity and conductor of acoustic vibration, a bridge to antiquity, the presence of the body in the space of the audiovisual work and the coexisting genetic, historical and metaphorical content in the petrification of ancient and pre-American knowledge, lead to the rethinking of technology and the idea of progress clearly traversed by a number of constituents of a biological, cultural, political and socioeconomic nature, which cohabit within a systematized social order and install power devices in the use of technologies and interfaces that build to the world, in a determining context regarding mass control, technological industrialization and the knowledge imparted in society. The interface stone is postulated as a reproductive model of imaginary solutions, re-thinking technology and implying other immediate urgent needs such as policies in accordance with natural laws.
Fragmented stone on tape scanning
Sculpture in expanded field.
In my exchange of talks with the Ecuadorian researcher Ruth Rodríguez Sotomayor I was able to get to know and get closer to the pre-American culture, this arose from research on pre-Columbian identity which led me to Ruth several years ago.
Ruth told me about the water mirrors carved in stone as well as the stone chests where the pre-Americans kept sounds that they considered sacred. From that moment my inquiries about stone, sound and ideophones took a specific course.
Rumi boxes. Acoustic explorations in landscape architectures.
The sound of this eventuality is noticeable in a garden of resonant stones that remain silent, the stones recycle rainwater and it makes a tour of its carved cavities. I was able to appreciate and hear this path and rest of the water in a garden-like arrangement of stones that I built outside my house, the effect of the still water in the carved cavities, I was able to appreciate and discover it in a very silent night which is an almost inaudible micro sound and its contemplation is a lapse that fades while the hanging drops randomly die in the acoustic cavities.
