COLLECTIVE RESONANCE

Multidimensional Collage / Collaborative Audiovisual Landscape

This piece began with a shared archive and a simple constraint: 47 artists, each contributing exactly one minute of sound. Merged together, the collaboration is the final piece: a 47-minute multi-authored organism in which individual gestures coalesce into something none of us could have made alone.

The sonic layer is built from a shared archive of more than 1,500 sounds, recorded from electromagnetic, mechanical, and physical sources, then acousmatized through both natural and analog processes. These recordings were edited, filtered, and reassembled digitally, forming a communal bank of raw material made freely available to all artists in the project. Each piece is shaped by the same pool of fragments, yet the final result is as diverse as the contributors themselves.

My contribution was recorded in the silence of a locked-down city. Everything within reach: my mother's pots used as resonant bells, cars passing outside, doors closing, footsteps, the echo of emergency stairs and hallways, banging on the elevator shaft.

The piece is titled EVP, after Electronic Voice Phenomenon, the practice of scanning radio frequencies to capture voices from the other side. I was drawn to the idea of a spirit box: rapid, fragmentary transmissions trying to form meaning, assembling sounds of everyday life: toothbrushing, footsteps, domestic rituals, as if a being that once inhabited our world was trying to communicate through the only language it had left.

Later broadcast by Radio CASo, the Argentinian Center of Sound Art, this work invites listeners into a fragmented, ever-changing topography of signal, noise, and shared authorship.