Huey Mecatl
México
Duration: 1 h 30 min Sound artists
Date / Place
Friday 12 de March / Zona de Islas, Ciudad Universitaria
Tuesday 16 de March / Zona de Islas, Ciudad Universitaria
Thursday 18 de March / Zona de Islas, Ciudad Universitaria
Saturday 20 de March / Zona de Islas, Ciudad Universitaria
Sunday 21 de March / Zona de Islas, Ciudad Universitaria
Sound installation nicknamed by its creators—Jerónimo García Naranjo and José Isabel Cruz Orozco—“great string”, in the Nahuatl tongue. It is a harp of large proportions made of ten ship containers setup in a two-story-high pentagon. The containers act as a resonance box and the sound is produced by way of long strings, over 65ft long, played with huge bows, percussion and pulsation. The audience may travel in the central area of the pentagon and become surrounded by the sound of the pieces composed for this instrument by García Naranjo and Cruz Orozco themselves, as well as by other guest musicians.
