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.
Water makes objects slippery and wet, but what about subjects?. In terms of having a different perspective on environmental dialectics, the narratives and memories of water allow us to sonically explore the interconnection of local ecologies through mimetic human-nature dynamics. More than just an imaginary exercise, this soundwalk considers the notion of fiction as key to embracing different correlations between the singular and the common, the body and the unknown, the audible and its meaning.
