Audio

CORALE. Endlessssssssong

, 2024
Sound work
46’18’’ loop

CORALE. Endlessssssssong is a composition of 8 audio tracks that are created from the interweaving of songs of humans and various species of cetaceans.
The work was developed during a period of residency in Buenos Aires and a trip to the area of Peninsula Valdés in the Chubut province, Patagonia.
The succession of tracks mixes songs, laments, funeral dirges, utterances, and human babbling with vocal units, verses, phrasings, themes and songs of humpback whales, dolphins, beluga whales, killer whales, and above all southern right whales, cetaceans that migrate to the coasts of the Argentine Sea.
The fusion of these sounds was further mixed with recordings made in the city of Buenos Aires, whose acoustic landscape was an important sensory experience.

All tracks were conceived together, growing as a single super-organism, where the concept of “crown shyness”, a particular phenomenon of plant growth, has become a matrix and processing metaphor.
The so-called “crown shyness”, whereby plants of the same species grow together in a limited space without touching each other, is a sort of natural geopolitical paradigm, evoking the respect and protection of a space for one’s personal growth, the ethics of free coexistence.
On the backdrop of this proximity and relational quality, the tracks were conceived as a single corpus, an album, a sound film, a set of suggestions and modulations that approach and brush against each other, always picking up the timbres and temperatures of the previous track.

From time to time, each segment is generated from the dust and residues left by the previous modulation to open up to further evolutions. The last section, which touches the opening of the composition in a ‘reprise’, returning to the initial atmospheres, curling in, unfolding a sort of circular development, showing an endless progression, an internal loop.
The subtitle itself is an onomatopoeic game that extends the final ‘S’ of ‘ENDLESS’ as the initial one of ‘SONG’, and it does so for the number of times that, sideways, becomes the algebraic symbol of infinity.