Kleos Guiniguada allows you to tune into the geographical and sound memory of the species and spaces that populate the Guiniguada riverbed, creating connections through the walk.
The musical piece is articulated around a central theme composed of 26 fragments of traditional music linked to the places of origin of the vegetation of the ravine, mainly from the Macaronesia. The selection and editing of sound fragments has been done without modifying their original tones, making only some tempo adjustments to connect them with each other and allowing the user to remix them according to their proximity to the plants.
On this sound thread, of botanical character, emerge musical variations located along 6 spaces on the path, for which 50 musical fragments and recordings made in the ravine have been used.
While the musical connections of the central botanical theme have been woven without modifying the original tones, we have deformed and slowed down some of the audios linked to the musical variations to levels where any reference is lost, as a way of reflecting on the different time scales that appear in the ravine.
Thus, we propose an approach to the landscape from the sound, promoting different ways of listening that also seek to dialogue with the ephemeral interventions of landscape, aromatic and gastronomic character developed in the project.
We invite you to explore and compose this hybrid story woven with multiple connections, in which through plants, spaces and music, we can reflect on the journeys, encounters and crossbreeding that cross us as a culture.
Musical sources
The musical piece composed for Kleos Guiniguada is structured around a central idea: time: how to imagine the sonic memories of plants, stones, landscapes and transformations that span from the human scale to the geological scale? One of the resources used has been to deform sound, slow it down until cracks and unexpected effects appear. The other resource, characteristic of Kleos, is to create cultural connections through music, built on the realization that the deeper one delves into a place, the more connected they become with others.
As a musical narrative, Kleos Guiniguada is composed around a central theme, articulated throughout the 6.4 km descent from Fuente Morales to the mouth of the barranco, and consists of 26 musical fragments whose origin reflects the Canary character of the vegetation in the ravine. This sonic thread weaves together the 6 "musical scenes" located along the barranco that have been composed using fragments of 50 traditional recordings and musical expressions. A musical scene for each of the 6 places that allows us to narrate Guiniguada as a heterogeneous collage of superimposed landscapes.
App
You can install the app 'Kleos Guiniguada' on your cell phone and walk around the ravine to explore the musical piece and the stories and data associated with the plant species, as well as information about the project. In the app options you can control the listening radius and the number of plants (loops) you want to listen to at a time. By clicking on the species that sound on the map you can see what they are and access their botanical data and see more info about the associated piece of music.
+ info: Kleos Guiniguada website
composition and collages: Ruben Alonso
direction and curatorship: Nomad Garden
software development: Datrik Intelligence
year: 2022
