Macondo, by Miguel Isaza

Macondo

by Miguel Isaza

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	1.	El mundo era tan reciente 12:32
	2.	que muchas cosas carecían de nombre 20:50
	3.	y para mencionarlas había que señalarlas con el dedo 17:35
	4.	Things are there but things are not there 07:28

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In '100 Years of Solitude' by Gabriel García Marquez, there is Macondo: a town hard to declare as fully real or fictional; an archetype of the magical-real; an interstitial town, where things are, but are not. Object-oriented philosophy proposes a not so distant idea: a flat consideration of objects, an ethereal alchemy in which everything, no matter if physical or imaginary, coexists although remaining autonomous.

Such ideas can be related to listening and composition in order to reflect the state of things after the anthropocene and also to consider sound as a way to explore objects and their dramas. If we consider things equally, no matter how real they are, then we can approach all objects as ‘sonic’, to value objects as resonances, being there but not. Sound in an ontological interstice for which causality is not conceived as fixed to a particular mechanistic perspective but rather a sonic scaffolding: a mutant, mysterious, paradoxical set of objects.

When it comes to listening, both materiality and intangibility interact, so here composition appears as a way of weaving such interstitial objects, made of echoes of field recordings, found objects, aural situations, sonic memories, digital dots... more
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released November 17, 2017

Images by Rossana Uribe.
Special thanks to Cat, Ross, Richard and Fabio.
c 2017 Miguel Isaza / p 2017 LINE

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