Jorge Barco

ROTA Residency, November 2021

GEOMANCES

The Territory of Blanca has places of great geological value that can be approached from art. During his residency at AADK, the artist has proposed to reflect on geology and its relationship with sound and time through a group walk in the Ramblas of the Sierra del Oro and through the construction of a kinetic sculpture that creates drawings with the oscillation of the pendulums. The instrument incorporates found materials and rocks and is a system that amplifies Blanca’s soundscapes, as well as electroacoustic and feedback in its performative side. The form and function of this artwork take as its reference a forgotten 19th-century invention called the Harmonograph attributed to Hugh Blackburn, professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow.