Daniel Palacios

Waves will be part of this international group exhibit that intends to explore the synthesis between image and sound, the different graphical and physical representations of sound, and its evolution in the context of contemporary art. It charts a course of the most representative artists and pieces of the last decade, also focusing on “visual music” experiments by artists from the beginning of the last century such as Oskar Fischinger and James Whitney. ‘Visualising Sound’ originated in the idea of generating dialogue among all of the pieces that make up the exhibition, spanning a century of creation based on the same idea or concept: to dominate the wave, represent and tame it; the need to go beyond the place where our senses have brought us, which is, after all, the essence of all art. It seeks to show the broadest possible spectrum of the multiple representations of sound, investigating the sound dimension of the spaces we live in.

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[... Our perception of time is bounded by repetition and change.
After N times, after an incessant repetition of the same action... when it loses its meaning, the time going by it's the only one difference that make it understandable.
It is in the details of how time has carved the surface where we perceive reality.
It is in their skin, where both the operator and the machine reveals what happens there and how it happens ...]

We are visual animals, depending on our vision as our main point of reference and that limits us, because sight only presents us a specific state in time. We perceive the different states but not the change while they are being produced. We need point B to draw the line that began at A.

The information is there, but it’s sometimes difficult to access.
Our memory stores everything, but we may not ‘remember’ that those memories are there; it is then that we link our personal experiences to items that we carry around every day in order not to forget… the item is thus not a visualisation, but a link.

A receptive environment is that one we can affect, that one which is listening to us and accepts our presence, it changes, it adapts itself to us. Unknowingly modeled by us.