ABC / 'θi ne

ABC / 'θi ne / sound installation. Electronic sound loop composed from the recording of sounds generated by a 16 mm projector’s mechanism, a 16 mm projector and a laptop. 

Sound installation / 16 mm projector / laptop / Sound loop 2:30 min  

/ 'θi ne / is the phonetic transcription of the word Cine (Cinema in Spanish).
ABC / 'θi ne / is an electronic loop composed from the recording of sounds generated by a 16 mm projector. The composition thinks around a genealogy of digital cinema technology, as one that does not reveal its own mechanism from the sounds it emits. Unlike the analogue film projector, which manifests its mechanism loudly, these mechanical sounds have disappeared from our imagination, now that we are in a predominantly electronic environment. From Marshall Mclluhan’s perspectives, the actual technologies used for Cinema, correspond to a sophistication and adaptation of the previous ones into a new digital environment. ABC / 'θi ne / has been composed as an analogy of this evolution from the mechanical (analog and fragmented) to the electronic (digital and discrete).

The installation requires a 16 mm projector running without film and projecting its light mechanism into a laptop screen, from which the sound composition is played. Spectators must sit in front of this laptop and use headphones to listen to it.

As the composition goes, the screen of the laptop turns from black to white. As if the screen was turning on by itself, evoking a cosmic time-space movement.