sound interpretation

"New York Underground" is my collaboration piece with Leithal Music. It is our sound interpretation of a trip from home to work to the university and from there back home using the NYC subway system. This piece was a mix and an editing of a collection of sounds recorded during a year. "New York Underground" was first released in 2015, under the label Haze Netlabel, and it was published, the summer of 2018, in a selection of short stories about mass transit underground experiences. The anthology, Los Topos Mecánicos, Ed. Igneo, was conceived by Raquel Abend and includes some New York based authors, who write in Spanish, and many others living in the US, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Espectros (2020) 

Apagones Series / Blackout Series

Reading #1. 

Espectros (2020)

For installation: Projection, Sound, paperback novel, color digital photograph.

       Spectra is the first in a series of readings presented by a disembodied voice.
The idea for this series began with a conversation with my friend and colleague Alejandro Aragón and became, for me, an exploration of the evocative power of sound.

           The text read is about the encounter of two lovers interrupted by the arrival of the police at the cabin where they have locked themselves up for a romantic weekend in Camarioca. Before opening the door, they try to straighten the room they have in disarray for their erotic scenario and try to get rid of the objects that may implicate them. The officers have come to the room to take the lovers to the Police Station.

Sound Composition: Riccardo Massari Spiritini (Aurali, side B)
Reader: Jacqueline Herranz Brooks (Segment of Mujeres sin Trama, a novel)

'Camino en el mundo aleatorio… “and welcome others’ [words] to their final home' is an improvisational poetry walk piece created for the project ALL IS THERE TO SEE in collaboration with composer Riccardo Massari Spiritini. 

ALL IS THERE is a platform for transmedia practice. Several elements such as postcards, time-lapse videos, and improvisational poetry walks are part of ALL IS THERE.  Thinking about sound as a destination for my improvised words, I have created routes, caminos, improvisational poetry walks in Forest Park, located in Lenapehoking, with my friend Riccardo Massari Spiritini in another continent. Together we thought about my walks in Forest Park as recorridos de estilo.

Camino en el mundo aleatorio and welcome others is my improvisational walk number one! It represents the path to Ogún, my orisha at birth from the Afro Cuban Pantheon, and includes the segmented line from Lewis Latimer's poem IX, "and welcome others to their final home".

The most exciting part for the project has been using the partiture or rhythmic notes titled Sintesis de Ritmos Afrocubanos publish by Olú batá Galí Riverí en Santiago de Cuba en 1989. I found them thrown away on the street during one of my visits with my mother in Havana. The rhythmic component of the piece is based on the interpretation of one passage from this Afro Cuban rhythms compilation. Riccardo replaced the drums with his invented instrument, the tarcordium, for my improvisational poetry walk number 1, that also references the opposite of open spaces --like prisons and asylums- "welcoming some but not others".

ALL IS THERE TO SEE (transmedia work in progress)
Jacqueline Herranz Brooks’ statement