Added value
Audiovisual piece
Radar international sound art festival
Bogotá, April 2015
In collaboration with Werebere residency project
For Michael Chion ‘added value’ is the expressive or informative value in which sound enhances the visual image. This expression was coined after studying the films of Ingmar Bergman and reading some of his reflections in the subject.
In my visit to the ‘Los colorados’ lake in the paramo of Sumapaz, I observed that the landscape had this tendency to remain still likely because the movement manifested very subtly: the vegetation barely moved under the effect of the wind, and the bugs that flew around were tiny and almost imperceptible. Nothing seemed to change from one second to another, from one minute to another.
In the other hand sound allowed for movement to manifest in the paramo as the frogs sang and water ran through tiny creeks.
When I observe, I feel like time tends to freeze as a mental photography that contains the past and future in one moment. When I listen, movement and change inevitably manifests as I feel submerged in a stream of events where nothing remains still.
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