“The Invisible Presence” is an evolving audiovisual installation that explores the dynamics of tension between nature and technology in the Anthropocene age.
A giant block of ice is suspended on a metal platform, slowly melting into four sensitive surfaces, which translate each droplet into its own sound “palette” (samples taken from glacier field recordings, melting ice formations and other related sources).
Using custom-designed Max4Live devices, each hit randomizes a series of parameters, while others evolve depending on the density of the composition - a finite, unrepeatable lullaby for our planet.
The name is a quote from Jonas Mekas’ I Had Nowhere To Go : “I feel the ocean’s presence below me - very, very close. This invisible presence is stronger than anything else.”
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Guido Flichman is a musician and graphic designer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. As an improviser, he works with repetition, texture, and errata as fundamental tools, using sound as a transformative agent of space.
His latest solo releases include “Clorofila Voyeur”, released on the Portuguese label Crónica Electrónica, and “Horizontalismos”, released on Syrphe (Germany).
He developed the installation “The Invisible Presence” as his final project for 2019’s Expanded Music diploma from UNSAM (Universidad Nacional de San Martín), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Since 2006 he runs the website Latinoise (latinoise.com.ar) — which aims to promote and disseminate the information and works of noise and experimental artists in Latin America.
