BAICC – LAURA MORENO BUENO

THE SOUND OF IMAGES

Patio de la Fundación Luis Seoane | Thursday June 2nd | 11 p.m. | Free entry to all venues until full capacity. It will not be possible to enter the venues after the screening has started.

What do the landscapes of Toronto sound like; what are the colours that evoke its spaces, what is its rhythm and tone? This is the basis for El sonido de los imágenes (The sound of images), a project by Laura Moreno Bueno that has been chosen for the upcoming fifth BAICC, International Artistic Residential Studies for Cinematographic Creation (a collaboration between the Mostra, AC/E and LIFT). Moreno Bueno is an artist whose track record has combined sound and visual experimentation around themes such as the body, movement and analogue processes. She has set herself the task of converting images projected through 16 mm into sounds by using photosensitive microphones. The resulting artwork is a kind of diary of Moreno Bueno’s stay in Toronto, which she produced using the colours and shapes found in her wanderings around the city. She also plays with double exposures, expired emulsions, colour filters and different methods for developing by hand, gradually modifying the images (via a random, open procedure) in a symphony of a city that truly sounds, by directly translating its projected images. It is an experiment that involved creating microphones that she herself describes as “photophonotransistors”. Rather than microphones, they are instruments that use images instead of strings or wind to create sound. 

THE SOUND OF IMAGES
Laura Moreno Bueno | 2022 | Spain, Canada | 2 × 16mm projectors, photosensitive microphones | 17 minutes.