RingRaje It is a site-specific sound installation that confronts us directly with simple questions.

 

Based on the very old and worldwide known children's game of ringing bells and running away - know as “Knick Knack” in some countries - I recorded the results of my interaction with many randomly rang doorbells of Buenos Aires buildings.

 

This series of unanswered questions, was recorded over several months, compiled and worked on my own sound aesthetics.

 

Who's there?
Who are you?
Anyone there?

 

RingRaje is a sound work that evokes simple philosophical questions appearing directly in the ear of the listener, without symbolism or metaphors mediating in between.

 

Situationist theorist Guy Debord defines the dérive (drift) as "a mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances”. In other words, an unplanned tour through an urban landscape directed entirely by the feelings that are evoked in the individual by their surroundings, served as the primary means for mapping and investigating the psychogeography of different areas.

 

As a result of this experimental random walks, I traced a path in the map of the neighborhood Nuñez, Buenos Aires, Argentina. That I constantly returned to these places.

 

My dérive walks resulted in sound translation in form of an audio-map.

The work was selected to participate in Isidoro Art Gallery, curated and selected by Perenne Gallery in 2014.

 

The work was designed and built for this site-specific event, which was played through a “fake" doorbell located inside the gallery, where visitors could hear the work through this intercom at any time during 2014.