Comburinda
2022
Sound installation
Ash wood structure, acrylic boxes, electret microphones, natural objects, inflatable paddling pool, PVC hoses, submersible pumps, water, and electrical controller.
160 × 125 × 161 cm
*This piece was produced with the support of the **Ecos Sonoros** grant from the National Center for the Arts (CENART) and Centro Cultural Los Pinos. As part of the research, a residency was carried out at the Mexican Center for Music and Sound Arts (CMMAS) in Morelia.*
Comburinda is a sound sculpture. It operates through a system of hoses that carry water from a pool at the base to individual acrylic boxes placed on shelves. Inside the boxes are natural objects collected during walks in nature reserves near the site where the piece is presented, forming a kind of mapping or small collection. Each compartment contains a microphone that captures the sound produced as water falls onto the different materials—leaves, stones, flowers, stems. During the activation of the piece, I manipulate the operation of the water pumps, generating different sonic textures and amplifying them through speakers. The work emerges from an investigation into the degradation that ecosystems undergo through an element intrinsic to them, such as water, whose flow has been altered by human activity. Through sound, the piece seeks to make perceptible the vulnerability faced by complex natural systems in the face of erosion.