Cartography II: Switzerland-Luzern

28.06.2024

An Sit, Quid sit, Quale Sit?

This work invites the question: if something exists (and can be experienced), what is its nature (quid sit)? And what is its quality (quale sit)? I am interested in the nature of sound, how it travels through the air and disappears so quickly.

The piece was presented in a black box, a room whose acoustics are quite dry, with little reverberation of its own. Here, sound’s nature is exposed: it leaves as soon as it is made. This dryness also makes the room a blank space in which new spaces can be built and shaped to sound the way we want them to. In this Cartography, I created a space inside a space, using paper as a medium for sound propagation and gathering the audience inside a paper capsule. Through string, bow hair, and paper, the audience could listen up close or choose to walk around the installation, experiencing the performance from different angles. The main source of sound is the campânula, a sympathetic-string cello.