PARTICIPATION Last year at SOUNDPEDRO, Martin Espino presented FUEGO, a work about the element of fire and the relationship to fire that humanity has had with it for millenia! This year, with the new work AGUA, the element and concept of “Water” will be explored sonically, visually. kinetically and nueralogically. This is a continuance of […]
PARTICIPATION Vibration Experience TOKAN’XO CHOKANLA YOPONUKI 1 Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2020: Vibration Experience “Vibration Experience”, is a composition of 20 minutes approx., repeating that evening, is based on Martin’s work on how deaf and hard of hearing people, and the hearing community as well, “experience“ sound or rather vibration. The piece will […]
PARTICIPATION EHECATL (wind) Exploring the parameters of wind, the ceremonial, the meditative, the effects…Utilizing Ancient Aztec and Mayan Musical clay wind instruments and Ancestral clay sound generators reproduced by Martin Espino. He will also integrate electronic technologies into his composition. WEHYA HAWEH YO MYSTERIO Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2021: MYSTERIODedicated to “El Dia […]
PARTICIPATION TONANTZINThis work continues my signature sound exploration of utilizing Ancient Mexican instruments with electronics.My mission is to use these instruments and take advantage of the natural frequencies and sound qualities inherent in them. I want to send these instruments off to the future.TONANTZIN the name of this work and it means “Mother Earth” in […]
PARTICIPATION STRING TONOS for 1 String Guitars “STRING TONOS” involves making “sounds” on 1 String Guitars, by playing the instruments with clips, files, sticks, junk and more. Playing the string with these different items will create new, strange and unusual sounds. This is way of playing the instruments is based in the concept known as “Prepared […]
PARTICIPATION Antología liquen / Lichen anthology This sound essay is my take on the concept of holobiont proposed by Lynn Marulis. We are, were, will be bodies ecosystems lichen. Symbiosis: I record the sounds I make with my mouth when speaking and mix them in different frequencies with radio static. Resounding symbionts entangle opening a gap […]
PARTICIPATION Persephone awakes X / Perséfone despierta X This piece is the tenth iteration of a sound essay built from the digital mix of human voice and crickets chirping in different frequencies. Compost: subtle variations of the same chaos. Fluid, nomadic entities fuze into one single sonic body. Symbiosis. Paraphrasing Salomé Voegelin, a multiplicity of […]
PARTICIPATION Zaratan Baseboard Movement I am concerned with the poetics of gaps, of unexamined spaces behind doors and under stairways, between trees and under rocks. Between initial impressions and deeper, more elaborate understandings. Between memories. Between articulated thoughts. Between pockets of usable time. Because these spaces are overlooked, awkward, or otherwise not functional, they are […]
PARTICIPATION Rehearsal Mariah Anne Johnson explores the physical realities of bodily experience and art making in the landscape through drawing, movement, and installation. Originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, she focused on art and literature at Rice University while performing with Rice Dance Theater, earning her MFA from the University of Illinois in 2006. Her work has […]
PARTICIPATION Made Mad Reflective material sits on a rotating motor, hung from the ceiling. The motor rotates the film in a continuous motion – like the motion of a conveyer belt. A light source will shine on the film while it moves, creating a beautiful projection/reflection. This piece will be coupled with recorded sounds of […]