Plataforma sonora: Tania Candiani´s intervention at hotel Condesa, Mexico City

The piece is a structure that hangs from the highest point of the courtyard, as a triangular prism covered in each angle by a row of aluminum trumpets in which a composition based on the sound of 30 sprind-driven clocks, can be constantly heard.
The clocks were recorded one by one in a sound studio and then mixed in a composition in-crescendo.
Candiani describes her work as “an architectonic intervention in the central courtyard as a space-expansion of sounds of sonorous gravitation”.
“My intention –she says- is to reflect upon the present and on memory; upon our activities according to timing, on sleep and rest. What is it that happens during this cycle? With this project I intend to explore the possibility of manipulating time perception and its sound. If at a symbolic level we can use the metaphor of its elasticity though the use of mechanical and programed rhythm, such as the sounds and melodies of old alarm clocks, there is also a physical property that allows us to talk about continuous symmetries or time translation. Between these two levels, this piece works as much in its capacity of connecting harmonic qualities, as its manifestation of the potential energy stored in the sound waves”.