Doble Penetración Sound Composition, Action. Duration: 13' Beca Kuitca, Buenos Aires, Argentina October 2011
Doble Penetración was a public experiment designed for the exhibition space of Universidad Di Tella, where our project had to share room and dialogue with one sculpture of Luciana Lamothe.
We started with the utopia of creating a series of group sculptures that, from the four corners of the space, would have surrounded Lamothe’s piece. Facing the impossibility of composing artworks amongst four different subjectivities that would be formally and aesthetically solid, we decided to move from the corners to the outside walls and directly sculpt the exhibition space.
The space is a hexahedron of 11x18x5 mts. One of its most notorious characteristics is the volume’s magnification of any sound (like a soundbox) and the long reverberations of them.
In order to sculpt the space, each of the four members built an instrument, composed of reinforced concrete, semiprecious stones and iron bars. After that, we started mapping the sound of the space by striking the walls with the instruments from the outside, using different combinations: up, middle, down, strong, normal, soft, a full hit or with the edge of the instrument, at the right, centre and left of each wall. Once we had mapped the four walls we composed a score for four instruments with our own system of musical writing.
The musical performance was done with light, in dialogue with Lamothe’s sculpture, and in total darkness, offering a different perception of the location of the sounds source and the intensity of the reverberation.