Artist-in-residence at Casa Poli

Artist-in-residence at Casa Poli, Coliumo, Chile, during the months of July and August 2016, as part of the "Traslado" program of the National Council for Culture and the Arts. (www.casapoli.cl

During my stay I built three instruments on the principle of the aeolic harp: using a pvc tube with 10 lines, a guitar and a plastic bucket with a 90-meter nylon line.

Many thanks to Leslie Fernández y Óscar Concha, Varinia Brodsky y Simón Pérez, Patricio Vogel, Francisca Sánchez, Verónica Bennet y Francisco Navarrete.

 

 

Drum: 90-meter long monofilament nylon (1mm) with a 5-gallon plastic bucket on one of its ends.

Wind and rain between 3 and 6 am.

Guitar I: (Violeta [Parra] dixit: "Blow the guitar. Love the whirlwinds") 9-meter long 0.5, 0.6 y 0.7mm nylon lines.

Harp I:  pvc de 20cm diameter pvc tube with varied 10 nylon lines.
At the end of the recording one can hear an old seaweed collector who was roaming the area for "luche" and "cochayuyo". 

Guitar II: (Violeta [Parra] dixit: "Blow the guitar. Love the whirlwinds") 9-meter long 0.5, 0.6 y 0.7mm nylon lines.

Guitar III: (Violeta [Parra] dixit: "Blow the guitar. Love the whirlwinds") 9-meter long 0.5, 0.6 y 0.7mm nylon lines.

Harp II: permenantly installed on the slope to the rocks used by fishermen, seaweed and seafood collectors.  

Guitar IV: (Violeta [Parra] dixit: "Blow the guitar. Love the whirlwinds") 9-meter long 0.5, 0.6 y 0.7mm nylon lines.

Guitar V: (Violeta [Parra] dixit: "Blow the guitar. Love the whirlwinds") 9-meter long 0.5, 0.6 y 0.7mm nylon lines. (piezoelectric recording)