3.14
3.14, 2015
3.14 is a sound piece made for the Bosque Sonoro cycle by curator Abel Matus for the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. The starting point for this work was the circular architecture of the museum’s central hall as well as the particular resonance produced in the stairs by the acoustic reflections of the central dome. The name of the piece refers to the number pi.
During three-hours and fourteen-minutes, a closed loop of constant feedback audio signals travel around the lobby and are modified every three minutes and fourteen seconds. Each parametric change made in the various sound transformation devices results in an alteration of the signal flow that in turn detonates a new arborescence in the sound framework that makes up the piece. The result is an enveloping, organic sound texture that flooded the museum with complex harmonic masses and resonant sounds.