KARST

KARST is a piece produced within the Resis Festival and presented in Santo Domingo del Bonaval (Santiago de Compostela) and at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, (Madrid).

The work is proposed as a hybrid between landscape, habitable sculpture, sound space and clothing. The limits between these elements are blurred, creating a territory in constant metamorphosis where materiality is transformed and sound becomes an ephemeral architecture. It is a sculptural piece that functions as an emptying of space that has the capacity to disintegrate into fragments and materialities.

Skins and fabrics are subjected to processes of dissolution, crystallization and mineralization inspired by the stalactites and stalagmites inside the caves. From experimentation with biomaterials (mineral salts, calcium carbonate, gelatine, rocks, earth, mold), the aim is to give physicality to the beauty of the intermediate processes, to the changing and unstable. To think the rock beyond the inert, beyond time, as a living architecture in continuous transformation.

A work that explores changing soundscapes, as rough as hypnotic. The whole space sounds. Everything emits an echo: it amplifies, resonates, expands or disappears like a ritual in a language we do not understand. Twelve voices learn to speak, imitate what they hear. They order in their mouths the world they see and hear, constructing images of space, fragments of meaning, words."

The composition, written for twelve voices and four percussionists, weaves a sound framework from texts taken from the Book of the Dead of ancient Egypt, Leonardo da Vinci's treatise on painting, Angel Valente's poetry and fragments of Richard Wagner's Twilight of the Gods. Voices and instruments dialogue with each other, generating echoes, resonances and amplifications that expand space and alter the perception of time.