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Exercises of memory: Ricardo Dal Farra

Thoughts on the horror, thirty years after the coup

Ricardo Dal Farra. From my memory… (2006)

Installation: Multi-channel sounds system, spread out linen, black lights. Sound material: The installation’s sound material was composed at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics of Stanford University, thanks to a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The production used the Common Music programming language; a physical modeling plucked string instrument and frequency modulation as synthesis techniques.

My memory still stores bits of horrifying situations, moving situations, situations that seem to have repeated themselves, situations that seem to be wanting to escape but can’t. They may seem unconnected, lost, fearful, but they are somehow in a place that is hard to foresee. They gather to repeat, highlight and remind. They are situations from my life, and from many other’s lives, permanent and fruitless searches that make us think, over and over again, about existence and disappearance, why and how.
Any answer? Possibly.
More questions? Undoubtedly.
Wet storm of ideas, feelings, oblivion and apparitions.
I don’t know… perhaps they are there, what? Who?
In my memory… in your memory.

The work relates to my experiences during the last decades, the intimate experiences, and to my feelings about our society, posing clash resources, in occasions, of subtle complicity in others, trying to surprise, accompany and expel, according to the given moment and circumstance.

Ricardo Dal Farra