Sonic Boom
Sonic Boom
The Acoustic Heritage
Audiovisual Art – 2024
About the artwork
“Barcelona” brand is an advertising campaign by the city’s municipal administration to promote it as a cosmopolitan cultural capital. Known for its modernist architecture, Barcelona is designed for tourism, shopping, and liberal entrepreneurship, attracting over 9 million tourists annually. The campaign’s success has made Barcelona the sixth most valuable city brand globally, behind cities like London, Paris, and Tokyo. This brand development isn’t new; it began 150 years ago with the city’s “Indianos” magnates. “Sonic Boom” is an audiovisual installation that reveals Catalonia’s hidden history, questioning the brand by connecting the 19th- century economic boom with Catalan involvement in the slave trade. It presents an audiovisual narrative inviting reflection on Catalonia’s complex heritage and the need for historical awareness and social change.
The creative process
Within the collective, our creative process takes an interdisciplinary approach, blending historical research with artistic exploration. This process includes intensive field recordings, psychoacoustic studies and the examination of acoustic spaces. Through experimentation with sound perception and sound anthropology, they develop immersive narratives that highlight the importance of auditory artefacts. Their projects often involve collaborative eforts, integrating diverse expertise to create sound experiences that provoke social reflection and awareness of our environment through the auditory.
About the artists
The Acoustic Heritage is composed by Ginebra Raventós, Emilio Marx and Edgardo Gómez.
Ginebra Raventós is a poet and sound artist who explores the voice, the word, the collective unconscious and psychoacoustics through sound and space. She explores repetition, trance, altered consciousness and mental transport. Emilio Marx is an acoustic engineer, sound technician, musician and sound artist based in Barcelona. He uses acoustic space as a sound object and participates in experimental music projects such as Sessions Nocturnes, Dronegone and Hoarfrost. Edgardo, sound engineer and sound artist, navigates the intersection of scientific research and art, focusing on acoustic space, sound perception, field recordings and acoustic heritage. They are part of the “Acoustic Heritage Collective“, an artistic collective that creates new forms of narrative based on sound practice. Learn more
