c_Vib consists of 4 sound sculptures as an invitation to (inter)active contemplation. The audience is challenged to see, hear, and touch sound, an approach in which the body is a decoding element of the soundscape created by each piece in its specific individuality, as well as in combined compositions arising from such interaction.
Floor, Arches, Flower and Stand By materialise sound, making it tangible and receptive to being captured by other senses beyond hearing.
Actions and sound – carefully rediscovered for each place – bring forth a discourse that reveals sculptures not only as musical instruments but also as bodies with their own identities in space, holding equally distinct physicalities.
These pieces are made of a 1,80m x 1,80m square-shaped support and each consists of different conjugated elements. Each structure and its specific combinations make up the character and identity of each piece. The reactions and compositions of their materials are physical and sonic.
Floor:
Speakers with particles that jump and draw patterns according to different combinations of sound.
Arches:
The speakers’ motion stirs the wooden elements, turning still materials into a “living” percussion instrument.
Flower:
It captures and gives out sound. It explores an idea of sound “photosynthesis”. The sounds elicited by the users’ touch are collected, processed, and fed back into real-time listening. It must be listened to through one’s ears, but also one’s hands and feet. Sound is literally inside the wooden petals.
Stand By:
Its name gives away the posture it suggests. The listener should be lying down so as to be massaged with sound vibrations.
Each piece suggests an imagery but also an action: to contemplate, to touch, to interact, to remain.
It has been showcased since 2011 as an installation and as a dance and music performance. The latter works as a user manual by which members of the audience are invited at the final stage of the performance to experience the imagery of each sculpture with all their senses, stressing the installational character of this work.