‘Itinerarios del sonido’ invites us to reflect upon our relationship with the urban environment, the signs and symbolism we are constantly exposed to, and how we file away all the codified information we receive on a daily basis.
We often consider and remember the city we live in through images -this might well be in fact what seems moost normal. It is, however, also possible to recreate a city through sound, listening to the echo of the myriad of voices that inhabit it.
‘Itinerarios del sonido’, a project curated by Maria Bella and Miguel Alvarez Fernandez, has invited fourteen artists representing a wide variety of nationalities and disciplines (including composers, visual artists and poets among others) to choose a site within the city of Madrid an create a sound piece based on that context. These fourteen artists visited the city between December 2004 and January 2005 in order to plan their pieces as well to participate in round-table discussions and lectures.
Each of these sound works was installed at a bus stop chosen by the individual artist. From the%20th May to the 25th of September, 2005, everybody was able to listen to these sound pieces by simply plugging in their headphones at each bus stop shelter.
This was meant as an invitation to confront the private experience of listening with a variety of public and urban contexts, respecting our acoustic environment.
‘Itinerarios del sonido’ is a collaborative project involving the Area de las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid, the Centro Cultural Conde Duque and the Residencia de Estudiantes, and it is curated by Maria Bella and Miguel Alvarez Fernandez.
For more information, please visit http://www.itinerariosdelsonido.org/