Saturday, April 15, 2023
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Curated by Jaclyn Quaresma
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Work by Laura Moreno Bueno
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This live performance contains flashing lights.
Please join us for a Q&A with Laura following the performance.
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Images Festival, Toronto
What does Toronto’s landscape sound like, what are the colours that evoke its spaces, what is their rhythm and tone?
This is the starting point of El sonido de las imágenes. Laura Moreno Bueno combines sound and visual experimentation around themes such as the body, movement, and analogical processes. In this project, she sets out to transmute the images of Tkáron:to (Toronto) projected on 16mm film into sounds by using photosensitive microphones. By converting light into sound, she creates a soundtrack from the images projected on the screen. In order to do this, Laura has had to manufacture a new kind of microphone that she describes as “a photophone transistors. They are more than microphones, these are instruments that use images, not strings or wind, to make sound.”
The resulting performance acts as a diary of her stay in Tkáron:to, built around the colours and shapes that she found drifting through the city. Playing with double exposures, expired emulsions, colour filters and hand development, Laura modulates the images with processes open to chance, producing an audio visual symphony of the city from a direct sonification of its projected form.
Jaclyn Quaresma 