RIO CALLADO [QUIET RIVER] (v.2 2025)
Installation
:: 3D printing, copper cables, transducer, DIY hydrophones, piezoelectric, amplifier, water
:: Second version
3D design and renders: Santiago Crespo
The distributed pieces, filled with water, "collect and listen to" ambient sound or background noise. To achieve this, each of these pieces contains a hydrophone that captures the energy of acoustic vibrations from the surroundings and transduces them (converts-transforms) into electrical energy. This energy then travels through the cables to the central piece, where, analogously, the electricity is transduced back into vibrations.
Visitors are invited to rest their hands upon the central piece and listen-to/with the hidden rumor of the quiet river.
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Background noises,
mundane and monotonous,
stubborn,
demand with their absent presence,
an unlearning of bodies
grown numb
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Explorations of Desire
Quiet River arises from the technical imaginaries of electric currents coursing through audio devices—a spatial metaphor for desire, or the urge to strip away sound’s institutionalized forms from my body. These forms, bound by binary logics and calcified stereotypes, enforce a narrowed lexicon for sensing the world.
:: 3D printing, copper cables, transducer, DIY hydrophones, piezoelectric, amplifier, water
:: Second version
3D design and renders: Santiago Crespo
The distributed pieces, filled with water, "collect and listen to" ambient sound or background noise. To achieve this, each of these pieces contains a hydrophone that captures the energy of acoustic vibrations from the surroundings and transduces them (converts-transforms) into electrical energy. This energy then travels through the cables to the central piece, where, analogously, the electricity is transduced back into vibrations.
Visitors are invited to rest their hands upon the central piece and listen-to/with the hidden rumor of the quiet river.
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Background noises,
mundane and monotonous,
stubborn,
demand with their absent presence,
an unlearning of bodies
grown numb
----------------------------------
Explorations of Desire
Quiet River arises from the technical imaginaries of electric currents coursing through audio devices—a spatial metaphor for desire, or the urge to strip away sound’s institutionalized forms from my body. These forms, bound by binary logics and calcified stereotypes, enforce a narrowed lexicon for sensing the world.
Acéfala Galería
CABA Argentina - April, 12, 2025
Is listening through water a returning memory?
Could it be a discovery?
3D design process with Santiago Crespo
