La Orejona (XS)

La Orejona (XS) is the smallest version of the vibrational membrane microphone series called La Orejona.

La Orejona interacts with phenomena such as sound waves in the air, caresses from the wind, tremors from the ground, and oscillations induced by touch from both human and non-human entities. In contrast to regular modern microphones that are made to target individual signals, La Orejona operates with the purpose of weaving independent signals into a collective and inseparable noise, a thick mass of convoluted muddy sound. La Orejona is a microphone of noise, a rubbery listening apparatus that centers on the poetics of unintelligibility. It is not intended to be a precise measurement device, on the contrary, it is a device for confusing signals, fuzzing, mixing up, and obscuring. By doing so, La Orejona aims to explore the world through a vibrational logic in order to fuzz the rigid paradigms and lines that delineate our imaginations. This is an invitation to pay attention to other codes so we can rearticulate our relational ways and the narratives that define us; so we can tune into our vibrational realities.

La Orejona (XS) enabled a mobile and outdoor recording studio for socio-natural arrangements and collective improvisation sessions through different processions and collective sessions that invite for vibrations and interaction with the audience, resonances from the spaces it transits in, sounds from the place, the wind of the place, voices, wind instruments, synthesizers, touches from trees and plants, the waves from the lake, and other entities and vibrational forces onsite.

Technical assistance (dream team): Jessie Mindell and Devin Murphy. This work was developed at La Becque Artist Residency and with the support of Kunsthalle Baden Baden.