Organismo sonoro: Agaricus Polychromo (Sound Organism) is the sound material I composed for Ecosistema Artificial Sonoro (Artificial Sound Ecosystem), an installation by new media artist Isaías Herrera. The project was selected by the Council for Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León (CONARTE) in its Fiscal Incentive for Artistic Creation programme in November 2019.
The title refers to Agaricus, a genus of mushrooms: the piece works as the voice of an organism within the installation's ecosystem. It consists of four sections of about twelve minutes each, created from recordings and live processes in SuperCollider and Ableton Live and mixed in REAPER, so that the installation could play them continuously.
Ecosistema Artificial Sonoro is a life simulator manifested through sound. Its autonomous sound organisms are born, mature and die according to real environmental variables at the installation site: temperature, humidity, wind speed, air quality, lunar phase, season and time of day. Each organism has its own life cycles and sonic behaviour, and visitors can see and hear them individually in a web interface on their phones. The installation runs on a generative algorithm designed by Isaías Herrera, and the organisms were designed in collaboration with Malitzin Cortés (CNDSD), Bioluminik, Bernardo Feldman, Iván Naranjo and myself. It was shown at Parque Fundidora and, from September 2024 to February 2025, at the Centro de las Artes in Monterrey, in the exhibition of the 4th Premio Arte Nuevo León.
Ecosistema Artificial Sonoro website
Videos
Documentation of Ecosistema Artificial Sonoro, a project by Isaías Herrera (videos by Isaías Herrera on Vimeo):
A fragment of Organismo sonoro: Agaricus Polychromo can be heard below.