This page connects with chapter 1 in the artistic doctoral thesis.
Aquarmonio is a sound composition-installation-sculpture-performance that was inspired by the cenotes found in the Yucatan peninsula of southern Mexico. The main idea in this project was to create a case-specific electroacoustic system that captures, processes, and amplifies water sounds in real-time, allowing us to play with water’s sonic characteristics and their poetic implications. Four metal water containers were carefully chosen and set up as cenotes. Two floating speakers represented the cenote’s water lilies. The Aquarmonio functioned as a sound composition-installation-sculpture most of the time; a performance took place at an established time only once a day. Then the performers played with the sound sculpture and started augmenting it with different objects. The system remained in its new state after the performance, with the installation continuing to play back its own soundtrack, but now all the resonances of the different objects had been added.
Working group: Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski, Alejandro Olarte and Alejandro Montes de Oca.
Public presentation: Black Box, Helsinki Music Centre, Finland, April 17th, 2015. Museum of Oaxacan Painters, Oaxaca Post Museum, Mexican Center for Music and Sonic Arts (CMMAS) and Amate Museum Cuernavaca, Mexico, September 2015.
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This composition-based project of artistic research introduces the term Case-Specific Electroacoustic Systems to describe a set of electric, digital, and acoustic devices that are interconnected in a particular way to embody a specific sound work. The artistic research states that when the sound composition process occurs in tandem with the electroacoustic system configuration and design process, a particular creative practice is engendered. The main research questions are how the development of such a system becomes another parameter of sound creation, and how this influences the artistic ideas and process elaborated around a specific sound work. In the course of the doctoral trajectory five new sound works were created and presented, thus forming the artistic portfolio of this doctoral project. Each work included the composition, design, and creation of a case-specific electroacoustic system. An introduction to the concept of Case-Specific Electroacoustic Systems, its contextualisation, and an analysis of the artistic practice and the outcomes of each of the five artworks are presented in this written thesis. The complete scope of this doctoral project, including the media material of the artistic portfolio and this artistic doctoral thesis, is contained within the exposition Case-Specific Electroacoustic Systems, published and archived in the Research Catalogue online database.
- Alejandro Montes de Oca - Case-Specific Electroacoustic Systems - 2022
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