Resonances
The RESONANCES workshops followed Raúl Romero’s art practice and partnered with Prof. Emily Hong’s Introduction to Visual Arts students. During Raúl’s residency at the Hurford Center and VCAM, he invited us to be open to the material aliveness of sound. Installations he fashioned for the workshops theorized sound through physical contact, circuitry, texture, and materiality. He showed us that there were archives inherent in vibrations that can be sensed when attuned to his practice.
Prof. Hong’s class collected sound collages, instructed by Raúl. The class played these collages through the sound sculptures Raúl made with the help of Kent Watson, Director of the Makers Space. In the second workshop, Raúl led us across copper, acrylic, and walnut, infused via the sounds of Bad Bunny, coquis, Tito Puente, and drumfish—all to feel in a material, tactile way the resonance between the Arecibo satellite dish, the first sounds and sonic codes sent into outer space, and the Poconos mountain ranges.
Raúl Romero :: Fall ‘24
archives Live in vibrations that can be sensed when attuned to Raúl’s practice
Following Raúl resonances become something more than similarity: they are a material relation between the Arecibo satellite dish, the first sounds and sonic codes sent into outer space, and the Poconos mountain ranges.
