Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete

Sound Extensions

 

After several years investigating how to see and give plasticity to music, together with the creation of various Tableau vivant (Goya, Brueghel, El Bosco); My interest in creating sound from the visual, in this case, sculptures and paintings, led me to create a new practice/intervention in the museums called “sound extension”.
 

This intervention, in the form of "sound extensions", has the function of giving a parallel life to the visual work, creating an object hybridized by sound and its physical presence.

Each of the works “speak to us” through its own language and sound that emerge from its will; a will of the original material filtered and shaped by the praxis of the artist: a sound extension of the material and its becoming into art.
 

A first experience was conceived at Museo San Telmo of San Sebastián (Spain) during a month, from December 2022 to January 2023, where I gave sound extensions to the following works: