Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Back to Basics program / JUNE-JULY 2022<br />
Tomás Franco<br />
Brazil<br />
tomasfranco.com.br<br />
About<br />
Tomás Franco is a sound designer/recordist and<br />
experimental video artist based in São Paulo, Brazil,<br />
graduated in Film Studies at the University of São Paulo. He<br />
currently works mostly with sound for film and television.<br />
Tomás does experiments with musical sound recordings,<br />
specially interested in the language of noise, electroacustics,<br />
soundscapes and the lo-fi aesthetics (that, also with video).<br />
As a composer, he has made classical guitar pieces in<br />
alternative tunings, film soundtracks, and collaborations with<br />
other artists. One of the sound interactions he explores is the<br />
noise-silence duality and the disrupting of stillness.<br />
“Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no<br />
silence that is not pregnant with sound” - John Cage.<br />
The Library of Imagined Sounds<br />
In The Library of Imagined Sounds, you are invited to add<br />
sounds coming from your mind on a wall and also to share<br />
the experience of imagining the sounds described by others.<br />
There are no limits to imagined sounds: they can be tiny, huge,<br />
absurd, connected to memory, or the subconsciousness.<br />
Time, space, actions, texture, characters and sensations are<br />
translated in a short text, and shared.<br />
By imagining sounds, more and more ideas appeared<br />
and became experiments. In The Whispering Gallery, the<br />
participants are invited to whisper to a device, in a private<br />
room, and their sound is reproduced in speakers hidden<br />
in the woods. Sound is displaced and secrets revealed to/<br />
through speaking trees. By walking around, it is possible to<br />
choose a voice to listen to closer, or just to stay in the center,<br />
surrounded by people in multiple languages telling personal<br />
stories, confessing something, singing or reading.<br />
In Birds of Paradise, the initial input was by the imagined<br />
sound “the song of an extinct bird playing at a mausoleum”.<br />
5 visual artists were then asked to draw 5 different birds,<br />
to be displayed at the entrance of the woods at night, with<br />
an overhead projector. The songs of these 5 species were<br />
edited and played back in high volume from the woods, at a<br />
distance. The images projected in a white sheet, moving with<br />
the wind, made the experience a bit ghost-like. Just at the<br />
end it’s revealed to the audience that the birds they heard<br />
were extinct, when they get a paper that has the name of<br />
the species and info about where and how they lived, next to<br />
each drawing and year they were likely extinct.