Centre Civic Convent Sant Agusti
From February 4 to 7, in the chapels of the convent
Sample of the Master in Sound Art (UB)
Inauguration – February 4, from 6pm to 8pm
From 5 to 7 February, 11am to 2pm and 5pm to 8pm
The convent of Sant Agustí is transformed into a space of resonance where the sound reveals what persists in memory. Alter. Transient sounds It is a collective installation created by 16 sound artists, who are involved in various spaces of the convent to explore the transformation, displacement and footprint of history in the building.
The route starts at l’Escala with Ornaa work that deconstructs sound and form, disintegrating an architectural ornament in a fragmented process that confronts the expiration. Inside, What you have to detract from the ventanas It creates an immersive space where the reverberations amplify the memory of the gypsy genocide, overlapping temporalities between past and present.
In the hallway, They go and come It is a point of traffic between space and sound realities, where the flamenco key articulates a rhythm of displacement and cultural crossbreeding. Finally, Free It resonates in the basement of the convent: a metal vibration, an echo filtered by the ventilation duct, an open door that lets the clash between the military zapate and the gypsy rhythm, evoking the large redevelopment of 1749.
Into Altersound is traffic, memory and witness.
Orna
Alex Barranco, Camila Simsiroglu, Allison Trench, Rodrigo Sánchez
Orna is a sound and sculptural installation that explores transformation as a fragmented and inasted process. On the scale of the convent of Sant Agustí, the granular sound deconstructs the auditory matter while an architectural ornament disintegrates in several states: image, form, ruin. The viewer descends in synchrony with this solution, facing expiration as the only constant.
What you have to detract from the ventanas
Alida Insensé, Elsujetoerroneo, Alejandro Rionda, Diego Serrano
It is a sound installation based on a minimalist composition that explores three types of reverberations: low, medium and high. These allow to generate an immersive and timeless experience, fusing sound qualities of the past with technological tools of the present. The aim is to contribute, through the displacement inside the room, to a sound and chromatic crescendo that evokes the first genocide of the modern age against the Roma community, making you become witnesses to witnesses What you have to detract from the ventanas.
They go and come
Alessandra Bellini, Aora Kiran Kumar, Juan David M, Marina Fu Torrecillas
The hallway represents the transition between two spaces, the point of connection between two physical realities, but also sonic. Our installation proposes to achieve the ideal of transient sounds through the space “corridor” as the very representation of the transition. The aisle is the privileged listening point for a sound performance structured from the key to flamenco, a musical genre that is a symbol of transitions between cultures.
Free
Gonzalo Rodríguez Pino, Mauro Llaumett, Cristóbal Dañobeitía, Lorenzo Rossi
A metal vibration resonates in space, filtering through the ventilation duct. When approaching, attendees find an open door. Through a hatch, they can see a gypsy clothing lit by a luminous frame in the form of an ogival arch. From the inside, Echoes of Roma Zapatejades and military marches emerge, catching the listening. History vibrates between the walls, evoking the memory of the Great Red of 1749.
Organized by: Master in Sound Art (University of Barcelona – UB)
