Preludio Cuántico, (Quantum Prelude)

Data Sheet

Installation. Two-channel video, octophonic sound 27’20’’. Single channel video 10’. Chalk mural

Original Music

Rogelio Sosa

Credits

Production: Rafael Acevedo, Fernanda Ezquerro, Xenia López, Marcela Moreno, Virginia Roy. Photography: Ivan García, Juan Manuel López, Marcela Moreno, Miriam Ortíz, Katri Walker. Audio: Raúl Cortés Ayal, Alexander Lozano, Carlos Merino, Ollin Miranda, José Luis Jiménez, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Antonio Jiménez Urbina, Arie Orihuela, Jacqueline Saavedra Peralta, Alan Zaragoza Corona. Asisstants: Victor Barragán Zamora, Natalia Cáceres, Mariana David, Arturo Durán, Adrián León, Miguel Ángel Molina Gutiérrez, David Temoltzin, Fernanda Vázquez, Gerardo Zapata. Audio postproduction: Miguel Ángel Molina Gutiérrez, Rogelio Sosa, Alan Zaragoza Corona. Video postproduction: Joaquín Cordero, Ollin Miranda, David Sánchez, Alfonso Víquez Huicochea, Víctor Torres. Musicians: Rodrigo Ambriz, Ernesto Andriano, Edgar Anguiano Molina, Carolina Aragón Lozano, Edgar Anguiano Molina, Alda Arita, Armando Daniel Arista Villar, Luis Alfredo Belmont, Emilio Bozzano Azpiri, Alexander Bruck, Anahlí Cerrillo, Manuel Chacón Acosta, David Iván Contreras, Nefi Hugo Domínguez Herrada, Alejandro Cruz González, Rocío Durán, Sofía Escamilla Galindo, Ángel Ricardo Espinosa Vidal, Diego Espinoza, Alonso González González, José Carlos Greco Pantoja, Jorge Galindo González, Carla González Ramírez, Rodolfo Gutiérrez Ocampo, Jireh Sarai Hernández Chávez, Ramón Hernández Mendiola, Javier Hernández Tagle, Albania Juárez Rodríguez, Katya Kazachkina, Paola Landa, Eduardo Lobaco, Omar López, Saúl López Arzate, Alina Maldonado, Miguel Francisco Manríquez Fernández, Misha Marks, Roberto Martínez (Roberto Tercero), Ulises Martínez, Azul Miranda, Leika Mochán, Sandra Muciño, Allan Muñoz Trujillo, Anahí Luisa María Navarrete, Ariadna Ortega Torres, Geo Alí Ortiz, Elizabeth Piña, Aleida Pérez González, Paulina Posadas, Gustavo Rangel Guerrero, Loretta Ratto Celiz, Miguel Ángel Rivera Bedolla, Jesús Humberto Rivera Iribe, Adriana Alejandra Rosales, Silvestre Ruiz Algara, Adriana Santiago, Elisa Schmelkes, Patricia Solís, Andrés Solis, Andrea Sorrenti, Luisa Amanda Tovalin, María Elena Tovar Garnica, Juan Armando Vázquez Carrillo, Rodrigo Adán Velázquez Hernández, Emmanuel Agustin Yañez Vera. This piece was produced with the invaluable support of interprotección

DETALLES DEL PROYECTO

Sound action for voices and instruments that intertwines different paradigms of understanding life, from the knowledge contributed by ancestral Indigenous cosmovisions to the implications of quantum physics. Understood as a choreographic narrative, Quantum Prelude is situated in the unam’s Sculptural Space in order to orchestrate the sounds produced by the musicians participating in the action as a possible score. The circular, megalithic monument, circumscribed by 64 triangular prisms, was mirrored by 64 musicians, thus replicating the constitutive arithmetic, geometrical and harmonic qualities of the sound of music—the laws of physics, the organizing principle of the nature and expanse of the cosmos.

This piece is structured by establishing a parallel between the Sculpture Space, a circular public sculpture 120 m in diameter (Silva, Escobedo, Hersúa, Felguérez, Goeritz and Sebastián, 1981) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and the Grand Collider. CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Hadron Test. This relationship intersects conceptually and visually with a sound performance for voices and instruments created specifically for the Espacio Escultórico that explores the relationships between the narrative of quantum physics, the worldviews of native peoples, and the natural understanding of the scale of things.

This piece was produced with the support of INTERprotección, for the exhibition “Tania Candiani. Como el trazo, su sonido (Like the Trace Its Sound)”.

Curated by Virginia Roy & Jessica Berlanga-Taylor