Pés na Terra

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Synopsis

At this point where two streets come together, Rua de Santo André with the long Rua de Santo Ildefonso (formerly known as Rua Direita), a lonely tree marks a place of reunion. The invitation, here, is to sit at its surroundings and listen within our body. From the subterranean world to the atmosphere, the three, a Magnolia, stands as a beacon that captures and transmits, axis mundi, an augmented sonic experience of our perception field, revealing the multiple voices and organic rhythms in presence. A sensorial field opens, senses are amplified, with our body becoming permeable and resonant, in order to deepen our presence, attunement and togetherness with the place itself.

During the process of creating "Pés na Terra", a generative soundscape, several recording and acoustic transduction devices, sonification of weather data from Porto's climate sensor network, and pattern analysis and its evolution were combined. These digital technologies are used in service of our participative presence within the place, to expand our ability to listen, feel and bond. The soundscape takes us to an immersive, affective and embodied experience of the environmental variations (temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind), bioelectrical signals, vibrational patterns, oscillations, qualities and materialities that go unnoticed in our daily lives, and integrate us within the life network that surrounds us.

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Biography

Cláudia Martinho (1977, Porto) is an artist and researcher, with a PhD in Music — Sonic Art (Goldsmiths, University of London, 2019), a Master in Acoustic Sciences and Technologies (Sorbonne, Paris, 2007) and a degree in Architecture (FAUP, 2001). Her practice intertwines sonic art with acoustic ecology and architecture. Based on immersive listening and attunement with the environment, she aims to create resonances between the place's qualities and their human and non-human communities. She creates compositions, performances, installations, public space interventions and facilitates workshops to raise awareness and reconnect humanity to its everyday places and the Earth's network of life.

How to get there

Look for the totem stand placed at the corner of Rua de Santo André and Rua Santo Ildefonso, next to the tree.