Cordal háptico

In collaboration with:

Juan Diego Capurro
Anna Cuadra
Raquel García
Alonso Nuñez
Valeria Robbiano

Video credits:

Director: Ximena Valdivia
Music coordinator: Luis Alvarado
Direct sound: Mirella Bellido
Camera assistant: Oscar Altamirano
Audio assistant: Yeny Castañeda

Cordal háptico, 2022

haptic
From the Greek haptikós 'to touch'.
1. adj. tactile.
2. f. Study of perceptions through touch.

Inspired by the coding system with ropes and knots used in the ancestral quipus of Peru, Cordal háptico is the first in a series of artworks that addresses the existing relationships and transits between the sense of touch, listening, sound creation and collective improvisation.

It was conceived to be performed by five singers who decode into sound various types of knots and textile materials. These were assembled into five ropes, each measuring twenty meters long. As the singers slowly walk the length of the ropes, they translate the sequence of variations in volume, shape and texture which they feel with their fingers and hands into parametric variations of their voice In this way, the vocal flow of each singer happens freely but in correspondence to those stimuli and tactile sensations.

Thus, Cordal háptico explores the potential that emerges from the simple rearrangement of the dominant sensory hierarchies in contemporary artistic creation, and proposes new ways of conceiving compositional recording, directed improvisation and collaborative musical creation.

This project was made possible thanks to the support of:

Ibermúsicas
Amil Project
Float
Harmonipan