A Residency at the Fab Lab
Residency
Guayaquil, Ecuador 2022
“Experimental laboratory for the creation of speculative instruments for communication between humans, ghosts, our planet, the cosmos, and other specters.”
Creation Residency at the Fab Lab of @mz14ec. The Production and Innovation Center of the University of Arts
Join us starting Monday, September 19th for “The Spectral Orchestra,” a laboratory for experimenting with noise and electromagnetism. Guided by visual artist, contemporary dance performer, researcher, and independent educator Constanza Piña Pardo
In this residency, we will delve into the artistic, speculative, and pseudoscientific exploration of experimental electronic devices designed to capture natural ambient signals such as lightning, thunderstorms, tectonic movements, cosmic rays, and artificial magnetic fields like wireless networks, radio frequency waves, and static electricity.
We’ll also create a simplified version of the renowned Theremin, an electromagnetic electronic instrument invented in 1919 by the Russian Leon Theremin. This revolutionary instrument is unique in that it can be controlled without physical contact.
To control these instruments, we will design experimental antennas using local conductive materials, allowing us to manipulate electromagnetism and orchestrate the hidden frequencies that surround us daily.
The workshop aims to teach electronics by building our own amplification, audification, and reception circuits based on handmade antennas. Through these experiments, we will experience the listening of inaudible soundscapes and the voices of the specters that surround us.
As a result of these experimental processes, we will perform a collective audiovisual ritual.
Radio was heard before it was invented. Spectral frequencies and phenomena from mysterious sources have been experienced throughout human history and are a sign of our sensitive existence in total connection with the environment, our planet, the cosmos, and beyond. We are antennas.
As part of the scientific research to prove the existence of these phenomena and expand human perception, various instruments have emerged to amplify, emit, and transmit frequencies to and from our environment.
The spectral orchestra is a laboratory for experimenting with noise and electromagnetism where we will study, from an artistic, speculative, and pseudoscientific perspective, some of these artifacts and develop experimental electronic devices to capture ambient signals of natural origin: such as lightning, thunderstorms, tectonic movements, cosmic rays, and also artificial magnetic fields such as: wireless networks, radio frequency waves, and static electricity.
Some of the devices we will build will allow us to hear frequencies that are seemingly absent to our senses but present in nature. These devices will be: low-frequency amplifiers and electromagnetic field detectors.
We will also create a simplified version of the renowned Theremin; an electromagnetic electronic instrument invented in 1919 by the Russian Leon Theremin. This revolutionary instrument is unique in that it can be controlled without physical contact.
To control these instruments, we will design experimental antennas using local conductive materials, allowing us to manipulate electromagnetism and thus orchestrate the hidden frequencies that surround us daily.
The objective of the laboratory is for us to learn electronics by building our own amplification, audification, and reception circuits based on handmade antennas and thus experience the listening of inaudible soundscapes and the voices of the specters that surround us.
As a result of these experimental processes, we will perform a collective audiovisual ritual. Additionally, the instruments and antennas created will be part of a collective exhibition open to the public.
