Sound installation. Festival of Contemporary Art of Chachapoyas, Peru (2017) and Tsonami Sound Art Festival, Valparaíso, Chile (2018)

Sonotropo is a series of rotating sound sculptures activated by the force of the wind. Each piece, composed of microphones and speakers, functions as a self-generative device: the wind drives its rotation and, through this movement, a song of feedback emerges. This song is the direct translation of wind energy into sound, a poetic language where the atmospheric and the technological intertwine.

The work establishes a relationship between two autonomous forces: wind and feedback. Both share a self-acting nature, the former as a natural phenomenon, the latter as an acoustic-technological one, and through their interaction they unfold a vibratory field that sustains and transforms itself. In this convergence, the wind not only activates the sculpture’s physical movement, but also defines the tone, intensity, and rhythm of its song, revealing a dialogue between matter, atmosphere, and machine.

Presented in diverse contexts, Sonotropo incorporates landscape as an essential part of its experience. In Huancas, the cloud-forest edge near Chachapoyas (Peru), it resonated with the vast and abyssal surroundings, while in Valparaíso, at the Tsonami Sound Art Festival, it intervened in the oceanic horizon, attuning itself to the shifting forces of sea and air. In both cases, the work does not impose itself on the territory but allows itself to be traversed by it, activating a situated listening that links the natural, the human, and the technological.

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