Site-specific installation in collaboration with composer Juan Pampín and visual-artist Daniel Trama.

A 50 meters tunnel that walks you under Libertador Avenue in Buenos Aires was intervened with 8 speakers and 8 microphones placed along the walls facing each other. A laptop was in between the speakers and the microphones, transforming in real time the emerging feedback. Right in the middle of the tunnel, a video installation built a visual analogy of the feedbacking sound. Two movement sensors where placed in both ends of the tunnel sending a signal to the computer whenever a person would walk through it. This signal would change a particular state of the processing being performed to the sound signal at that time. But the sound flux would not only be modified digitally by the computer but also physically by the people walking through the tunnel and interrupting the feedback with their bodies, causing further transformations to the overall sound. The architectural space became sensitive not only to human presence but also to the wind, birds and traffic running along the avenue above it. Soundwise, the tunnel would become sometimes a roaring engine, others a vocal tract, even a wind storm.

Live audio from the installation: play

A short video from the opening:

Production Credits:

Produced by Dirección General de Museos (GCBA – Buenos Aires City Government)

Curated by Horacio Torres.

Site: Arts Crossing, Av del Libertador at Av Sarmiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Dates: March 29th through April 29th, 2005.

Thanks to DXARTS (UW), Proyecto Arte In Situ (P.A.I.S. / Programa Teatro Acústico – UNQ).

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