This recording explores the Arroyo Medrano sinkholes sonority in Saavedra, Buenos Aires. It also includes parts of a testimony of the flood in Saavedra on April 2, 2013 and excerpts from an intervention in the hearing held on July 1 of this year in relation to the conflict over the construction of a ditch in Parque Saavedra. From these two stories, those words and phrases that make up territorial images such as “car graveyard”, “wall”, “ditch”, “death trap”, among others, were selected. Through the inclusion of this material, I explore the sonority of the overlap of the sound of the sinkholes with these voices. On the other hand, I try to produce a route of a verticality that is formed between the surface where these voices are recorded and that evoke the quoted words, and the depth of the sinkholes.
Sewers are limbic spaces of the city; access doors to a space for those of us who inhabit the surface. Sewers are sounding boards of the city where urban vibrations are reinforced and mixed with other deeper and more distant sounds.

Malena Velarde