el vaivén entre la voz y el silencio

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Sound is voice, an utterance.➀ It reverberates in matter and emanates from the body.➁ It is a space in tension where the divine is worshipped –be it celestial or terrestrial, maternal or primeval–➂ but also where desolating silences are produced. Through them, an eclipse befalls entire cosmovisions, either through the forceful and oppressive bells’ pealing➃ or via the simple but effective repetition of merely sixteen words.➄ Sound is voice, yet it is not a human privilege nor property; it vibrates and moves through the united atoms that constitute a bone or on the tensed surface of a calf's skin,➁ even in the path followed by the wind when it brushes against the crowns of the trees.➃ Sound is voice; it extends itself vertically and horizontally. Erected in a tower, it was a synonym of confusion in Babel,➅ but it also runs through the plains and valleys,➃ falls through sunken landforms, enters the earth and penetrates the groundwaters; it composes the salinity of the sea.➆ Sound is voice and leaves its imprint on the land and the bodies that inhabit it;➇ thus, the relief is traced sinuously in the swaying compass between voice and silence.

➀ María Sosa y Alberto Rubí, Malos aires, buenos sueños 01
➁ Matthew Herbert, The Horse Has A Voice
➂ Björk, Pleasure Is All Mine
➃ Lorena Mal, canto llano cuenca valle
➄ Margo Guryan, 16 Words
➅ Augusto de Campos, cidade city cité
➆ Mugison, Salt
➇ María Sosa y Alberto Rubí, Malos aires, buenos sueños 02

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