OBJETOS INVENTADOS 1. Entonador de Ruido

Textile and sound installation, 2012

“Media are spaces of action for constructed attempts to connect what is separated.”

— Siegfried Zielinski, Deep Time of the Media

 

Objetos Inventados 1. Entonador de Ruido (Invented Objects 1: Noise Intoner) brings together imagined, unrealised, and obsolete machines: devices conceived but never constructed, technologies that have disappeared, and instruments whose functions can be recombined and reimagined.

The installation continues my research into hybrid apparatuses situated between textile production, image-making, and sound. Its references include textile machinery, historical perspective-drawing tools, magic lanterns, cameras obscura, and devices for capturing, producing, and transmitting sound.

At its centre, two machines are joined into a single operative system: an embroidery frame and a noise-generating instrument. The latter draws on Luigi Russolo’s Intonarumori, acoustic instruments first developed in 1913 to mechanically produce and modulate different forms of noise through vibration and tension.

By connecting a textile apparatus with a sound-producing mechanism, the installation establishes a material relationship between thread, movement, vibration, and noise. Thread is no longer used solely to construct a textile surface; it becomes a means of transmission between two distinct technical histories.

Rather than reconstructing a historical device, the work proposes a speculative instrument — part textile tool, part sound machine — through which obsolete and imagined technologies become available for new forms of action.

Produced with the support of Ch.ACO Finlandia.