Atmosfera Explosiva

“Not only the body has changed, our sense of space has also changed, the digital has become an extension of the human body, […] Today it is necessary to distinguish between the organic body and the electronic body, the real and the virtual space, this life and the second life, the universe and the digital metaverse”_ These reflections that TAYLOR, Diana makes in “The new uses of performance” resonate with me as my own. As a result of the confinement caused by the pandemic, digital began to have more prominence in my social, cultural and sensory life. Abrupt changes such as going from sharing mass and performative dances in the open air to having virtual classes in a small room in front of my computer, performance mutated in this sense towards digital interaction at that time… I had to start contacting and interacting with people only through virtual appointments. The hours in front of my cell phone and the computer seemed necessary for contact in some way with other human beings, physically and mentally I felt tormented and with the need to explode. Many times, as a result I began to generate sounds and noises that made me vibrate cell by cell in my imagination, shouting with said noises everything that I could not explain with words. Like happenings, my work manifests itself in an open and fluid way. This work symbolizes my internal noise of a random, improvised nature, sometimes dark and disorderly, with digital, musical, visual and consequently sensory overtones. I invite you to be part of it and try to resonate with me or just with you… We don’t know exactly what is going to happen next. _“The action is directed in any direction it pleases and the only control that the artist exercises over it is limited to making sure that it continues to vibrate well.”- KAPROW, Allan. “Happenings on the New York scene (1961)”

Here the concept of chance resonates with my work. “Thus, chance and not spontaneity is the key concept, since it carries with it the ideas of risk and fear, thus recovering that beautiful and pleasant impatience that we feel when something is about to happen.”[…] ” It also allows us to better describe a method that, if characterized by something, is precisely because it lacks a method if we give greater evidentiary validity to the cake than to the recipe to prepare it. Those artists who use chance directly risk failure, the failure of be less artistic and more vital.”[…] “Happenings invite us to postpone those good manners for a moment and participate entirely in the real nature of art and (I hope) of life, which is why a happening is abrupt and hasty and often seems dirty to us. Dirt and it is time for us to understand it, it is also organic and fertile and everything can grow a little, including visitors in such circumstances.” In a way when I discovered this career I felt several times in a very digital reality. more established now, so much so that hours pass like minutes and a large part of my routine was reduced to being in front of a screen, so today part of me believes I am in the metaverse. This time I wrote a song that represents everything stated above. In this work I propose that you choose your own sound and invent your own version. Move across the canvas wherever you want and know that you can choose where to stay.

Message to the metaverse

I’m going to send a message to the metaverse, from my universe.

I am going to build a landscape with dementia, from incoherence.

I will invent fragrances with multiple substances,

Like, like, like.

A hologram of your figure undresses me,

Like, like, like.

Space fuck, ultra sensory, I’m going to scroll down.

Like, like, like.

I will make a dress with my own sound woven with you.

Like, like, like.

Instructions

There is a technique that modulates the sound based on the change in speed and volume, they are worked on sound tracks that I made during the pandemic, these sounds are often perceived as an explosive sound atmosphere. I propose that you choose your favorite sounds produced by this work, you can do this by sliding the mouse up to increase or down to decrease the volume, if you want to change the speed and modulation you can move to the extremes with many intermediate possibilities, let yourself be surprised, take the time to breathe and stop where you feel you belong. With the numbers 1,2,3 and 4 you can change tracks and have another range of possibilities, you can go back and forth between each track, if you press the right or left arrows, you restart the track from there, all that remains is for you to immerse yourself in your own sound experience.

Literature

• Taylor, Diana. (2012). “Los nuevos usos de performance” en Performance. Buenos Aires: Asunto Impreso, pp. 88-110.
• KAPROW, Allan. ([2015], 2016). “Happenings en la escena newyorkina (1961)” en Entre el arte y la vida. Ensayos sobre el happening. Barcelona: Alpha Decay, pp. 57-74.