Calle 9a (ACS)
Public space sound installation
Calle 9a
Jorge Tádeo Lozano Univ.
Bogotá – June 2017 and
August 2016
In alliance with
4-18 (Colombia)
Museo de la tecnología (Colombia)
The potential shortage of safe water in a near future and the elevated production of greenhouses gases are problems that threaten the habitat of future generations. Tropical forests are the second largest oxygen providers in the globe behind coral reefs but they are facing a frantic deforestation where every minute the equivalent area of 20 football fields of jungle is being cut down. Unfortunately very little is being done about it.
Tropical forests are all located in countries with developing economies where the laws that protect the resources are relaxed and not always applied with rigor. Counties with developed economies might have tougher regulations but the environmental problems are global and it is essential that the effort to protect the natural resources of the world becomes a global effort.
As artists we want o alert the population of both developed and developing countries about this very serious problem that endangers the prevalence of human life in the world in a not so distant future.
We believe that our line of work, sound art, is particularly powerful and pertinent to take action in this matter because sound as a medium has been used as warnings signs since pre-historic times.
Our work with field recordings in the Amazon has allowed us to appreciate the sounds of the jungle and has also raised concern about the potential extinction of the habitat of many of this species that will disappear without an environment to inhabit.
We are dealing with a matter of public concern so we believe that the project requires public space exposure.
We want to use the ‘voices’ of these animals to project them through available sound systems like those installed in plazas, stadiums, colleges, shopping malls, schools, hospitals, airports and train stations as a way to alert people about it. By using available sound systems we are working under the premises of resourcefulness and self-sustainability that should be mandatory in any productive process today.
On June 12th of 2017 we presented the project for a second time (first one was in the University Jorge Tadeo Lozano) in the 9th Street a commercial place for electronics, with high influence in the sound art community because of the number of pieces and devices, old and new, that are available here. With the help of Carlos Sánchez, funder and director of the Technology Museum and other local owners we used the equipment that was available and with more than 20.000 watts of power we projected the sounds recorded on the Amazon.
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