Author: Lúa Coderch
Mixed technik.
Sound landscape: vinyl LP 33rpm.
2 photographs B/W.
With this work Lua takes as a starting point field recordings that she made on the lake Walden, Massachusetts (USA), as well as descriptions of the sounds of the forest that Henry David Thoreau included in his book “Walden, Life in the forest (1854)”. With this material, Coderch generates a landscape supposedly natural but entirely generated through her voice. To do this, she manipulates the sound by reducing its speed, fragmenting it and adapting it to its register vowel- to then memorize it and return it to its original speed. The result is a sound based on the truth-based on the truthfulness of nature but at the same time becomes entirely false. This sonorous memory of the landscape provides various experiences: that of Thoreau in the mid-19th Century, and that of Coderch in the summer of 2016, and, finally, that of the spectators.