Adrián Bracho
Adrián Bracho
Statement
A fragment of something, no matter how small, reflects the essence of the whole. What is essential depends on the perspective from which it is seen, heard, felt. I focus on the small details of images, on forgotten sounds, landscapes and objects: those that are just scrolled by, but that can reveal characteristics of a specific moment and place.
To choose the fragments I work with, I like to walk and explore my surroundings until I find them. For me, the dérive is the main source of material: it implies movement, time; it implies experience; it implies not knowing what I'm looking for, even if I know where I'm going; implies geography, cartography; involves compilation, documentation; it implies memory.
In my work I seek the tension that is generated by decontextualizing, by inserting foreign objects, by realizing the absurd. With it, I assume a critical stance on the human impact on nature, the standardization of a 'global' culture and the capitalist model of production. My approach is interdisciplinary and I use the different media to reflect on my own experience and vision of the world.
Mi trabajo gira en torno al sonido. Ya sean grabaciones, objetos o imágenes, el material que me gusta utilizar son fragmentos de la realidad, siempre tratando de generar una reflexión acerca de sitios y/o momentos específicos.
Mi obra aborda los temas de la memoria, el tiempo y el entorno. Me interesa construir a partir de la huella que deja la realidad en mi memoria y, a su vez, del desecho (huella) que deja la humanidad en su entorno.
Bio
Movimiento que genera el sonido
(2020)
Movimiento que genera el sonido – 2020
Video
Duration: 7:43
Toy harp, tuning pin, clamps, needle, circular pencil, hexagonal pencil, uv lamp, lamp, glass cups, mobile phone
Movimiento que genera el sonido
(2020)
What you can see is not the vibration of sound,
it’s not a conversion of sound,
it is the shadow of what will come.
The causal force, not the effect.
Movimiento que genera el sonido – 2020
Video
Duration: 7:43
Toy harp, tuning pin, clamps, needle, circular pencil, hexagonal pencil, uv lamp, lamp, glass cups, mobile phone
Ambient sessions
(2020)
Gnossiene 2
Moment when the piano realizes it's not alone and finally begins to listen (phonometric register of 29/05/2020)
Ambient sessions
Gnossienne 2 – 2020
Video
Duration: 2:56
Composer: Erik Satie
Piano: Adrián Bracho
Ambient sound: San Felipe del Agua, Oaxaca
29/05/2020
Duet
for two toothbrushes
(2019)
Series of object-scores.
Each score is the musicalization of an ordinary activity.
The format of each score is adapted to the activity and it is thought to be mass produced and consumed.
Ordinary movements
Dueto – 2020
Digital Print. 28 x 43 cm
(2018)
The tin can telephone was developed by Robert Hooke in 1665. It was one of the first attempts to make a mechanical telephone that transmitted the vibration of sound from one tin to another using taut wire, without the use of electricity. That technology made a physical connection between those who were on either side, but you couldn't always tell who was on the Other side of the thread.
This work seeks to make a connection with the invisible and forgotten sounds of the city.
Al otro lado del hilo
Darmstadt
Al otro lado del hilo
Darmstadt – 2018
Sound installation – 12 audio channels
Electromagnetic and acoustic sounds from Darmstadt recorded with the technology developed by Christina Kubisch
Plastic cups, wire, neodymium magnets
Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany
26/07/2018
(2018)
Belgrade
Al otro lado del hilo
The tin can telephone was developed by Robert Hooke in 1665. It was one of the first attempts to make a mechanical telephone that transmitted the vibration of sound from one tin to another using taut wire, without the use of electricity. That technology made a physical connection between those who were on either side, but you couldn't always tell who was on the Other side of the thread.
This work seeks to make a connection with the invisible and forgotten sounds of the city.
Al otro lado del hilo
Belgrade – 2018
Sound installation - 4 audio channels
Urban sounds from Belgrade
Plastic cups, wire, neodymium magnets
Kulturni Center Baraka, Kvaka 22, Belgrade, Serbia
07 and 08/09/2018
It's alive!
(2018)
Series: Reciclajes
Digital archive that contains the memory of specific places and moments in different media.
This memory is constructed with the recycling of found objects that establish a communication with their surrounding.
It is an ongoing project that reflects upon waste culture, pollution, childhood, imagination and play.
Reciclajes
¡Está viva! – 2018
Video with still image
Duration: 13 seg
Plastic bag, rocks, wind
Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, Mexico
06/03/2018 10:52 am
Series: Reciclajes
Dog on a leash
(2018)
Digital archive that contains the memory of specific places and moments in different media.
This memory is constructed with the recycling of found objects that establish a communication with their surrounding.
It is an ongoing project that reflects upon waste culture, pollution, childhood, imagination and play.
Reciclajes
Dog on a leash – 2018
Sound object. Action. Sound recording.
Duration: 46 sec.
Beer can, acrylic, raffia string, 2 year old girl
Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, Mexico
18/03/2018
(2018)
Digital archive that contains the memory of specific places and moments in different media.
This memory is constructed with the recycling of found objects that establish a communication with their surrounding.
It is an ongoing project that reflects upon waste culture, pollution, childhood, imagination and play.
Flag
Series: Reciclajes
Reciclajes
Flag – 2018
Sounding image
Nylon fabric, raffia string, wind, wooden stick
Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, Mexico
18/06/2018
Series: Reciclajes
Reciclajes I
(2017)
Digital archive that contains the memory of specific places and moments in different media.
This memory is constructed with the recycling of found objects that establish a communication with their surrounding.
It is an ongoing project that reflects upon waste culture, pollution, childhood, imagination and play.
Reciclajes
Reciclajes I – 2017
Digital photograph and sound file.
Duration: 3:56
Stainless steel tube, contact microphones
Division del Norte, CDMX
04/07/2017
(2018)
Pulpo
Series: Reciclajes
Digital archive that contains the memory of specific places and moments in different media.
This memory is constructed with the recycling of found objects that establish a communication with their surrounding.
It is an ongoing project that reflects upon waste culture, pollution, childhood, imagination and play.
Reciclajes
Pulpo – 2018
Sound object. Video.
Duration: 2:56
Beer cans, coffee can, wood, nylon string, elastic string, wind
Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, Mexico
10/06/2018
for string quartet
(2012)
(2012)
(2017)
Puentes de Agua
(2018)
soundscape
for piano and ambient sound
concrete music
electroacoustic
One, Two, Calamari
Doute et Paranoia
Alpuyeca madura
(2015)
La Casa del Venado
6 channel work, stereo version
sound for the short film Doute et Paranoia
Director: Diego Sepúlveda
Piano: Adrián Bracho
Rain.
Time stands still.
One drop, one single drop.
Details emerge with closeness,
with the details the distinction.
Four water molecules united, so similar,
but each with it's own motion.
Brownian motion, random, withoutcontrol.
Motion to everywhere but to no place at all.
The molecules are part of the drop
and the drop is still in it's place.
Rain.
Reconstructed soundscape
sound for an unfinished short film
Sound material:
La Casa del Venado,
Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, Mexico June 2018
Sound :
Mercado de la Merced, CDMX
Sound material:
Alpuyeca, Morelos, Mexico
Text::
Nocturno en que nada se oye. Xavier Villaurrutia