Nudo (2015) sound installation
Made with the financial support of Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and the Arts through its “Jóvenes Creadores 2014-2015” Grant.
Acousmatic installation of undetermined duration.
Starting point for Nudo is the recording of Feldlinien for steel-string guitar, which was cut in small pieces. These were then rearranged and superimposed repeatedly until losing their original linear quality to become a texture or a sort of melodic web. Around 150 new fragments were produced this way and are combined, rearranged and played in real-time from SuperCollider, following a set of rules defined in the piece's code. Besides these elements, the ‘sound mobile’ includes sounds of sine-waves, an ensemble of wind-instruments (bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, trumpet, horn and tuba), incidental noises and a recording that my sister made half asleep to register what she had just dreamt.
While Nudo's structure is defined by rules and proportions, its form and duration are free: each "interpretation" of the piece by the computer is different and its duration is undefined (it could, for example, last ten minutes or a whole afternoon). The installation should be played uninterruptedly in a space in which the audience is able to move freely, defining the duration of their listening according to the time they decide to stay there.
While Nudo's structure is defined by rules and proportions, its form and duration are free: each "interpretation" of the piece by the computer is different and its duration is undefined (it could, for example, last ten minutes or a whole afternoon). The installation should be played uninterruptedly in a space in which the audience is able to move freely, defining the duration of their listening according to the time they decide to stay there.