JANUARY
January 19-25
XIX Festival Tsonami
Valparaíso (Chile)
Muelles en Movimiento and workshop on “Vibration and Resonance”
Parque Cultural, Valparaíso, a former prison, transformed into a large cultural area.
The 19th Tsonami Festival of Sound Art in Valparaíso returned to the theme #Atmosférica, dedicated to exploring sound as another way of relating to the world, from the complexity of the local and global present. An invitation to listen in the wind, in the rain, in the sun; to inhabit the atmosphere as a living field of shared resonances. For one week, the city had been transformed into a listening laboratory with concerts, sound performances, workshops, seminars, radio broadcasts, and a collective exhibition—all free and open to the public. More than 80 national and international artists participated in person or virtually on the radio via @radiotsonami, showcasing practices that intersect art, science, territory, and sound experimentation, sharpening our listening skills to invisible processes that profoundly influence our ways of life.
We participated with the installation Muelles en Movimiento, in the patio of the Parque Cultural, Valparaíso, and with a workshop on “Vibration and Resonance”.
Muelles en Movimiento
Muelles en Movimiento is a new work in our series of long-spring-installations. We don’t use springs to move and produce sound in other objects; the springs themselves are the protagonists. They behave like strings, relatively heavy and much longer and less tense than the strings normally used in music. These properties result in a much slower and more visible propagation of a “wave.” The sound is genuine, produced in real time, without any tricks. What you see is what you hear. Very long springs connected to resonating bodies.People could activate the sound hitting the springs with a rod, while listening inside a resonant body. January 24 we gave a performance, together with Alejandro da Silva, activating the springs from below, in the patio of the complex.
workshop “Vibration and Resonance”
In the workshop “Vibration and Resonance” the participants were invited to explore the sonic possibilities of compressed air-controlled vibration sources. The industrial vibrators we use are capable of generating a wide range of sounds, by evoking resonances in metal objects. The participants experimented with objects we collected in Valparaiso and their own metal objects. At the end of the workshop, they presented their discoveries in an informal concert.
This project has been made possible thanks to the Program for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture (PICE) of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E).
FEBRUARY
February 11
VI Jornadas de creación actual
Sonology department at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Madrid
Talk at 12 hrs:
“Vibración y resonancia– Nuestras máquinas musicales”
The Jornadas’ purpose is to create a forum where a series of guests from outside the center share with students, colleagues, and anyone interested, issues related to musical and sound creation.
Full program of the Jornadas (pdf)
