In-Depth project: the streets and garden section

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B24VOAPuwW1WZC1ZQmdxN0tSa1E/view

My city was Moriana. A city hidden in the mountains that is described as a hidden paradise from far, but once you arrive it is dark, has spikes on the walls, people crying, and is an infinite confusing and repetitive paths full of opposite mirrors with no end. Once, the "traveler" arrives it is too late to turn back it is also a city where suicide is very common because of the mental breakdowns of the unpleasant setting. I decided to connect things from my personal life and the conflicts my family is undergoing in my home country at the moment to the assignment. I made a visual piece along with a sound project, one part of the piece written on piano is using only try-tones, which there was a time that for playing "the devils scale" a person would be executed for the fear of the devil being summoned. The piano piece is played on both speakers, but on the right side speaker only is myself reciting a poem i wrote about my country's current situation in english, and decided to write it in Spanish on a shower curtain material and wrote half of the poem on one side and the other half on the other. Placed it on top of the analogue tv, while i put the setting on the tv for channel search which is an endless cycle of searching for channels. This part of the piece connects to moriana's opposite mirrors that never face each other and the endless search for an exit, but never to be found. Now, on the left speaker it is Maduro the current president of Venezuela, speaking to the people at the deceased ex-president Chavez funeral: how he is going to "stabilize the economy or make the streets safer". By combining the three sounds playing in different sequences and synced some at the same time, it creates discomfort and pain to listen like when people were crying in my city. Lastly i choose street objects such as crates and wooden pallets to show the aesthetically pleasing contradicting colors, but in reality is used for trash: same goes for the bed it is actually not a mattress but a frame. From far away it looks comfortable and like you can take a nap, when in fact the whole piece is quite the opposite, you lay to rest and it is hard, along with white noise coming from the tv, and the sound piece behind on the left and right speakers.