Eamon Ore-Giron

Working with Sound

Transcript:

My name is Eamon Ore-Giron and this exhibition is COMPETING WITH LIGHTNING / RIVALIZANDO CON EL RELÁMPAGO.

Along with being a painter and an artist, I have also been a musician for a number of years. I go by DJ Lengua, which in a lot of ways, the DJ part of that title i's a bit of a joke because I think of myself more as a “sonidero”, which in Spanish literally means somebody who makes sounds. I'm less interested in making people dance and more interested in making people think and make connections.

So if you think about painting as a way to kind of dig through the past and kind of pull up different relationships, both formal and also cultural; that's kind of the same approach that I take with music. I like to think about music as a way to kind of dig through the past, especially looking through Latin American musical histories and the diversity of the region as a whole and how much, so much of it is similar. And then how much of it has…there's so much, individuality in styles. 

And so the root of my music interests are the idea of digging and almost like an archeological kind of approach towards music and also improvisation, allowing for mixtures of sounds and rhythms to create the possibility of something new.

So in this installation, I've compiled recordings from all over Latin America, both folkloric to more dense types of rhythms, but also improvisational unreleased music that I've created with friends and, um, and also sound recordings. So it's a very, very wide net that I've cast to create this compilation.

And I think it fits well with the aesthetics of what I'm, what I'm going for in my visual language.