Playlist curada
A project by Gris García
2025
Featuring sound works by:
Augusto de Campos
Björk
Lorena Mal
Margo Guryan
María Sosa y Alberto Rubí
Matthew Herbert
Mugison
THE SWAYING COMPASS BETWEEN VOICE AND SILENCE
Sound is voice, an utterance. It reverberates in matter and emanates from the body. It is a space in tension where the divine is worshipped –be it celestial or terrestrial, maternal or primeval– but also where desolating silences are produced. Through them, an eclipse befalls entire cosmovisions, either through the forceful and oppressive bells’ pealing or via the simple but effective repetition of merely sixteen words. Sound is voice, yet it is not a human privilege nor property; it vibrates and moves through the united atoms that constitute a bone or on the tensed surface of a horse's skin, even in the path followed by the wind when it brushes against the crowns of the trees. Sound is voice; it extends itself vertically and horizontally. Erected in a tower, it was a synonym of confusion in Babel, but it also runs through the plains and valleys, falls through sunken landforms, enters the earth and penetrates the groundwaters; it composes the salinity of the sea. Sound is voice and leaves its imprint on the land and the bodies that inhabit it; thus, the relief is traced sinuously in the swaying compass between voice and silence.