Cities And Memory

"Ahuexote is an acousmatic work that explores the sounds of the waterways of Xochimilco (Mexico), the oar of the trajinera, the breathing of the tree, and the heartbeat of the ecosystem. In the still mirror of its waters, an ancestral pulse beats in Xochimilco: its canals are the arteries of this land, where axolotls murmur and the liquid, silent memory of flowers is preserved. "The soundscape is disassembled into distinct acoustic components, each projecting its own timbral and temporal trajectory. Like the ahuexote, a sacred tree of the Nahua peoples and a natural inhabitant of water bodies, the work unfolds sonic dimensions that evoke its spiritual anatomy and, also, its territorial resonance: "The tree that hears and mutates water, — the one that walks with its arm like an oar, — the one that breathes downwind, — and the filigree of birds upwind. "The work was created through various spectral processes, dismantling the soundscape into timbral, tonal, and noise components. Each of these elements has bee