Notes & Folds - Amor Muñoz

For the Jacquard x Google Arts & Culture Residency, artist Amor Muñoz created an interactive installation made of three cylindrical sound sculptures. Each pillar is covered with pleated textiles of different textures that are mapped and translated into different musical patterns.

The sculptures are activated by the public when approaching their hands to the fabric, making each cylinder rotate at different speeds and emit sounds of different registers. In a few words, the installation was designed as a kind of spatial musical instrument in which pleated patterns work as a score.Notes and Folds is an interactive installation that aims to create a connection between sound and form, as well as programming and handcraft.

The project is inspired by the work of Ada Lovelace, who related programming computational automata to make music. The artist also use as references the works of two composers from the twentieth century: Morton Feldman, who based some of his compositional techniques on the asymmetrical patterns of Middle Eastern rugs (e.g. Coptic Light for orchestra) ; and Conlon Nancarrow, with his complex compositions for pianolas, a type of automatic or semi-automatic piano that plays music from rolls of paper or perforated cardboard, thanks to a pneumatic system, connecting the artisan work with the programming when coding his music with perforations made by hand on paper rolls.

Amor Muñoz is a Mexican artist, her work is characterized by an interest in linking art, technology and society. Her themes include social knowledge, mediation, and manual labor. Originally trained as a lawyer, Muñoz turned to art as a vehicle for social change. Many of her projects combine performance and experimental electronics with traditional media such as drawing and textile techniques.

Rogelio Sosa is an experimental musician and sound artist. He is also an active promoter of experimental music and sound art in Mexico. His work includes live performances, sound installations and electroacoustic compositions. Using a wide range of sound sources, electronic media and kinetic devices, his work explores mainly sound morphology, improvisation and performativity.

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