A monumental sound piece, both in duration and in spatial terms, created from original environmental recordings done between 1990 and 2010 at multiple locations of tropical, sub-tropical and cold rainforests in: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Gambia, Mexico, Myanmar (Burma), New Zealand, Paraguay, Peru, Japan, Senegal, South Africa, USA, and Venezuela. Because of the vividness and presence of all the sounds and their spatiality, “Hyper-Rainforest” has the possibility of being perceived as a simulation. Beyond that immediate -and natural- reaction to this experience lies an entirely different possible territory: the realm of the phenomenologically ineffable. Sounds are not only indexical or referential (the standard view). They have their own life, their own ʻself-sufficiencyʼ. They are the potential building blocks (substance, matter, magma) of a self-sustained sonic virtuality not grounded in representation, but rather on the emergence of a more free world.
http://franciscolopez.net/

Fri 6.9. 12.00 – 17.00
Sat 7.9. 12:00 – 15:00
Sun 8.9. 12:00 – 14:00 / 19:00 – 23:00
Mon 9.9. 12:00 – 17:00
Ars Electronica Quarter / Sphæræ