In my years as a student of the master's degree in sound art at the UB, I had the opportunity to attend a seminar on lithophones and make one in the sculpture workshop of the faculty of arts. The decision to manufacture an instrument like this is influenced by a number of factors that arise in 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 genetic, historical and metaphoric content coexisting in the petrification of millenary and pre-American knowledge , lead to a rethinking of technology and the idea of progress clearly traversed by a number of biological, cultural, political and socioeconomic constituents, which coexist within a systematized social order and install power devices in the use of technologies and the interfaces that they build to the world, in a determining context with regard to 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 involving other immediate urgent needs such as policies in accordance with natural laws.
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Fragmented stone on tape digitization
Sculpture in expanded field.
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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 investigations into 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 consider sacred. From that moment my inquiries about the stone, the sound and the ideophones took a concrete course.
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Rumi boxes. Acoustic explorations in landscape architectures.
The sound of this eventuality is appreciable in a garden of resonant stones that remain silent, the stone recycles the water from the rain and this makes a journey through its carved cavities. This route and rest of the water I could appreciate and hear in an arrangement of stones like a garden that I built in an exterior of my house, the effect of the calm water in the carved cavities, I could appreciate and discover it in a very silent night which is an almost inaudible micro sound and its contemplation is a slip that vanishes while the hanging drops die in the acoustic cavities randomly.
