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When Gustavo Méndez or Los Otres are composing with sounds, language, images, thoughts - he is listening inside of an own body-listen (un)wordling. Gustavo crosses idiomas as he crosses disciplines: from ethnomusicology to psychoacoustics, from chants to cumbia metaphysics, from swimming to walking, he writes the world sounding it. For him/ them listening is a critical form of understanding with-in living, a challenge of hearing pushing to acoustic corners of thinking. Coming from a somewhat associative workflow of deformed sounds and listening with tinnitus, Los Otres focuses on arranging asymmetric audio processing techniques within stochastic environments and fragile systems. Actually, all of them Gustavo and Los Otres favourite sound frequencies are exactly into the range of their tinnitus timbre. He is a founding member and active part of the sound and society interested collective Research and Waves.

Immaterial Inventory
MESH, Werserburg Museum, Bremen
Instalation, 2019
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MESH, Werserburg Museum, Bremen.
Immaterial Inventory
MESH, Werserburg Museum, Bremen
Instalation, 2019
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MESH, Werserburg Museum, Bremen.

For the exhibition - MESH - at the Weserburg Museum in Bremen - Germany, the artist has developed a multichannel sound installation. It is based on his private sound archive, from which he has selected recordings and added new ones. Digitally reworked and rearranged, they will be made audible in the museum and, for the first time, related to one another.

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Mesh, exhibition view, Werserburg Museum, Bremen. Photo: Franziska von den Driesch

Strange and familiar sounds meet here - technical sounds of a Japanese ATM or the soundscape in the waiting room of the german immigration office. The various sound pieces can be heard one after the other via a loudspeaker, supplemented by a screen that displays the remaining time of all pieces together. The five blue benches positioned in the room refer to one piece each in their different lengths, thus offering space to calm down and listen. The recordings, although they represent very different times and places, create an immersive atmosphere. They are associatively linked with each other.

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Mesh, exhibition view, Werserburg Museum, Bremen. Photo: Franziska von den Driesch
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Mesh, exhibition view, Werserburg Museum, Bremen. Photo: Franziska von den Driesch
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Mesh, exhibition view, Werserburg Museum, Bremen. Photo: Franziska von den Driesch

The installation Immaterial Inventory is both: a sound event and a special form of nagevation of the world conveyed by sound.

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Immaterial Inventory diagram, Bremen.