Sound Station is an experimental study that investigates the characteristics and kinetic conditions of the sound. When surrounded by one or more sound instruments, a body motivated by the intention to create and organize sound patterns, moves and becomes a dynamic musical instrument, assuming the kinetic characteristics of the music that itself generates. From the relationships between the sound intention and the dynamics of fitting movement withing space, come up responses which are both random and musically built up, integrating sound and movement in different levels of complexity. The body loses its importance, giving way to an intuitive state and organic math.

The research into this experimental work began in 2005 and has continued ever since. It was never completed in a proper premiere, as it was not possible to obtain technical support for the further development of the necessary electronic elements. However, several experiments were explored and successfully developed, including the creation of hybrid electroacoustic instruments with sensors and a pure acoustic percussion instrument (percussion leaf), with specific design features to explore new possibilities of interaction. All of them handcrafted in studio. Many raw scenes of the research were documented on camera over the years for study purposes.

I decided to make this short film in 2016 with one of the sound instruments in a more artistic format but without losing the investigative spirit. The complexity of chaos that forms within the mind when creating reactive "musical movements" shaped by the mathematics of percussion is impossible to document. But the attempt to find a state of balance within this foggy field of investigation was partially captured in this short, when the movement becomes an instrument and the spontaneous reaction to the sound ricochets between what is mathematical and intuitive, what is percussive and melodic, what is electronic and acoustic, what is pre-determined and reactive.

We usually understand music as any creation structured in sounds, which brings to light a composition with meaning and set, and which can vary infinitely. We understand dance as an expression that uses movement more or less formally to create an intangible composition but visible to the eyes.

This short film seeks to blur the boundaries between both expressions. Despite having totally distinct natures, sound and movement have in their essence points in common. When these points are dissected and related in a specific way, they may contaminate each other with their respective natures and thus create a hybrid field of action which is not exactly located in music nor in dance.