Compasso Incerto
Sound Installation, as Colectivo Suspeito
Uncertain Compass is an installation which works with the instability of the body, turned into a sound object by the activation of the audience that explores it. The balance and strength of each person will act as the tools that make both the experience and the sound composition unique, which will react only to the human body and its movement and rhythm.
It is a reference to a floating object and to the planet's water, simultaneously threatened and a threat to our society, today.
It is also a particularly intimate form of navigation, of a surrounding journey, mental and sensorial, without leaving the place.
Compass being a tool for orientation and navigation in the planet, also refers to a tool for drawing circles and beat rhythm in music. In Portuguese, its original name also performs a sound pun, meaning “com passo”, literally translated as “with footstep” or using a more ambiguous expression “paced”, alluding to the small journey made within the circular unstable platform in the installation.
The sounds were recorded with a contact microphone from objects using natural matter as wood, stone, clay or metal. The all resonate as white noises and allude to the four winds.
