Fuerteventura se describe como una isla de viento, arena y soledad. Se invita a los turistas a que experimenten esa atmósfera especial fuera de lo común. Pero cuando uno intenta hacer grabaciones de campo en las que el micrófono, funcionando casi como una cámara fotográfica, como una herramienta para buscar lo infrecuente, la aventura, los tesoros ocultos, las joyas sonoras o el silencio perfecto, nos encontramos con que esos visitantes cambian la isla: modifican ese entorno y parcialmente lo destruyen. La artista sonora alemana se adentrará por tanto a la búsqueda de los silencios del desierto, pero también de los lugares atestados de gente, superpoblados. De ese modo, la pieza se concibe como un encuentro de contrarios: de la magia y de lo banal, de lo desconocido y lo familiar. Un retrato de la isla, pues, con todas sus facetas.
Fuerteventura is described as an island of wind, sand and loneliness. Tourists are invited to experience this special atmosphere out of the common. Making a composition based on local field recordings of the island I feel some embarassment; The microphone is like a camera – a tool to look for the uncommon, the adventure, the undiscovered and the hidden treasures. The “sound jewels” inmidst the perfect silence, far away from the everday life. On the other hand I know this is not reality. There are many travellers who look for the same outstanding sensations, the the rural vergin landscapes etc. But all of the visitors change the island; they modify and sometimes destroy the former tradition of long time habit ways of work and income. As a sound tourist I want to be aware of both sides: I will look for the silence of the desert but as well for the crowded places, I will search the hidden acoustic secrets and the noise of the touritic centres. People come to the island to have a time out of their usual habits but they bring these habits (and the sounds) with them. My piece should be an encounter of opposites, of the magic and the banal,of the unknown inmidst the familiar. Sometimes there can be new unusual combinatios of the desert and the crowds, sometimes the opposites will make a sharp contrast, but there is as well the possibility of new und unusual combinations of the two worlds. My piece should be a portrait of the island with all its facettes.
