SCALA
8 speaker sound installation
2020-2023
TABAKALERA (Donostia)
Scala is a sound installation encompassing the building’s main staircase. It intends to explore the countless languages and means of approaching music and sound by generating new and unexpected interactions between the sonic pieces and an architectural space used by a heterogeneous and mobile public.
Scala uses the three flights of Tabakalera’s central staircase to incorporate historical works and new productions made specifically for this exhibition, which will be rotated on a four-monthly basis.
Scala is an invitation to delve deeper into musical and extra-musical relationships, into what we hear and don’t hear, and into the exchange that happens between sound and sense and between the human and the mechanical.
My work in SCALA has been foundational. I participated together with Oier Etxeberria thinking, developing and designing the project as well as the sound system. Since then, my job is to curate the programme together with Etxeberria and prepare the diffusion of each composition. Although sometimes I also do recording, editing and artistic production (Niño de Elche, Maialen Lujanbio, Juan Perez, Ranghild May, Aranguren-Doñate).
SCALA#1 2020/12/11 – 2021/05/09: Sound Patterns . Pauline Oliveros, The Vocal Constructivist
SCALA#2 2021/05/20 – 2021/09/26: La Pena y el alivio . Niño de Elche
SCALA#3 2021/10/21 – 2022/02/27 : Bizitza Happening . Maialen Lujanbio
SCALA#4 2022/03/17 – 2022/06/26: Concierto para puño alzado . Juan Perez Agirregoikoa.
SCALA#5 2022/07/14 – 2022/10/23: Mutia. Carlos Casas
SCALA#6 2022/11/10 – 2023/02/26: Institutional Critique for Kindergarten . Ranghild May
SCALA#7 2023/04/04 – 2023/06/25: El Espacio del Tiempo . Juan José Aranguren & Andres Doñate.
