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Tierra Trompetas (2025)
The project unfolded over four days and was produced in the Lecrín Valley (Spain) through the University of Granada’s alRaso residency program with 10 emerging artists. The prompt for "Tierra Trompetas" was a desire to “cast a sound” directly from the valley's terrain. We dug holes beside the Río Ízbor and cast them in situ in plaster. The resulting negative volumes were then sounded using rubber membranes, balloons and pipes. After the work was finished, the forms were reverberated into the valley in a one-hour action.

Photo: Ayran Oliveira Crawford
Video: Vicky Gómez Cruz
Sound: Julio César Falero Folgoso
Thank you Victor Borrega, al raso and The University of Granada



  • Tierra Trompetas
  • To Serenade a Mountain
  • To Train a Fart in the Desert
  • Una Mano
  • 100 Drill
  • The Double-backed Beast
  • Song for von Guérard
  • Waterwalker
  • Hello Stranger
  • Test Excavation
  • Dry Gulch
  • 6m of Plinth
  • Big Pinky
  • Untold Torments Without Reason
  • Mapping La Mancha
  • Acts of Exposure
  • Two Sketches for Antipodysseus
  • Terra Australis 750 BC to 2012 AD
  • The Model
  • The Heat is. . .On!
  • Renny Kodgers Quiz Hour
  • Schleimgurgeln: Arrival

Tierra Trompetas

Tierra Trompetas (2025)
The project unfolded over four days and was produced in the Lecrín Valley (Spain) through the University of Granada’s alRaso residency program with 10 emerging artists. The prompt for "Tierra Trompetas" was a desire to “cast a sound” directly from the valley's terrain. We dug holes beside the Río Ízbor and cast them in situ in plaster. The resulting negative volumes were then sounded using rubber membranes, balloons and pipes. After the work was finished, the forms were reverberated into the valley in a one-hour action.

Photo: Ayran Oliveira Crawford
Video: Vicky Gómez Cruz
Sound: Julio César Falero Folgoso
Thank you Victor Borrega, al raso and The University of Granada



  • Tierra Trompetas
  • To Serenade a Mountain
  • To Train a Fart in the Desert
  • Una Mano
  • 100 Drill
  • The Double-backed Beast
  • Song for von Guérard
  • Waterwalker
  • Hello Stranger
  • Test Excavation
  • Dry Gulch
  • 6m of Plinth
  • Big Pinky
  • Untold Torments Without Reason
  • Mapping La Mancha
  • Acts of Exposure
  • Two Sketches for Antipodysseus
  • Terra Australis 750 BC to 2012 AD
  • The Model
  • The Heat is. . .On!
  • Renny Kodgers Quiz Hour
  • Schleimgurgeln: Arrival

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