Acoustic Mirrors is a multidisciplinary installation funded by a 2023 National Fondart grant in the Interdisciplinary category (Media Arts & Architecture). It was exhibited for the first and only time in 2024 in the city of Puerto Montt, the artist’s hometown. The work was installed for one month in an 18-meter-long room at the Puerto Montt Cultural Corporation.
The piece consists of four sculptural speakers designed by architect Osvaldo Sotomayor. These large speakers are spaced three to four meters apart and are treated as visual objects, made of varnished wood and supported by cylindrical structures that give the illusion of floating in space. The metal horns of the speakers point upwards, allowing the audience to observe their oscillations.
The second component of the installation is auditory and is meant to be experienced with eyes closed. Between each speaker, multichannel sound compositions travel from one side of the room to the other, featuring both regular and irregular percussive sounds that evolve over time to activate the space. The nature of these sounds aims to be visual in both a metaphorical and almost literal sense, as people can identify the spatial origin of the sounds, thanks to the high quality of the speakers and the compositional intent of the works, whose leitmotif is to always travel from one direction of the room to the other.
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