Magallanes Signaling by Carsten Stabenow and Raviv Ganchrow was presented at this years Tsonami Festival.
Perfromative spatial-sound configurations, culled from unedited location recordings of a research journey through Chile’s southernmost regions (Tierra del Fuego and Navarino Island) to the decommissioned radio station at Wulaia Bay.
Audible atmospheres reenact locations. The piece weaves together diverse signals from above and below the waterline, including the murmurs of weather and foliage, the acoustics of marine habitats, the whistling of piers, ground electricity, signals of satellites, earth-ionosphere echoes, reverberations of culturally modified trees and environmentally-situated linguistics.
This is an experiment in polymorphic playback and non-standard spatialization, where listeners are invited to engage with diffuse, meandering encounters, a collective tuning into the active bandwidths and material conditions of earth’s southernmost expanse.
