An initiative of dynamic silence conceived and conducted by Tres.

Blackout Concerts consist of attentive listening to the machine produced buzz present in the venues where they take place as these sounds are gradually switched off based on their location and intensity. The concerts end when the maximum level of silence and darkness is reached. By doing so, we experience the surgical dissection of the ambient sounds pervasive throughout our lives: the random mass of blows and hums that fill the rooms where machines are running at work and at home. During the process of gradually switching off these machines and lights, we experience the discovery of clearer, better defined soundscapes, each time holding a greater presence of silence. The final destination of this audio voyage is darkness and the new resulting atmosphere of regression to silence in its natural threshold where the quality of listening becomes perfect. However, this description does not refer to cases where the blackout process reaches the totality of the building and not just a room. The total blackout of an entire building has different implications and a greater symbolic component than listening to the sound dissection of a space within reach of the human ear. Notwithstanding, it is very unlikely, if not impossible, to witness each part of the process in its totality. When entire buildings are blackened out, it is better to say, “monitoring the process of silencing and blacking out of the building”, in the same way we listen to the process of data verification and countdowns previous to the launching of a spacecraft.

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