Gil Delindro is an award-winning media and sound artist that has distinguished himself by the research on organic materials, he primarily uses technology to explore ephemeral events and intangible processes in nature. His trans-disciplinary practice is based upon film, installation, and site-specific/field research, facing themes such as bioacoustics, ecology, and geology. Without forcing direct political messages, Delindro's work covers the contemporary struggle between humans and their rapidly changing environment, by interrogating in each way the human perception of “natural” can be challenged.
Sound is the binding element of all his work as a metaphor for the intangible qualities of matter. His ephemeral installations oppose organic elements with technological components, creating moving sculptures that often become independent beings, existing in an ephemeral space of transformation. These pieces directly translate stages of organic matter such as soil, water, wood, and detritus into spatial sonic installations.
Rhone
Presented at the WRO Media Art biennale this project is the result of a 3-month winter expedition to Rhone, the biggest Glacier of the Alps in the last Ice Age. Today, Rhone is one of the most affected glaciers by global warming, expected to disappear within the next decades.
Several audio recordings were conducted inside the glacier´s Ice tunnels, with special attention to low frequencies and infrasound. Infrasound corresponds to a range of frequencies below human hearing capacity, produced by the daily calving movements of the Ice.
To give physical form to these (otherwise) imperceptible low frequencies, the end result is a kinetic installation that uses stones, gravel, and dust to represent vibration as a direct response to infrasound. Although these low frequencies cannot be sonically perceived by humans, they generate acoustic energy, constantly moving the gravel around them in a performative and ephemeral sound sculpture.
This work was realised within the framework of the European Media Art Platforms (EMAP) programme at WRO Art Center (PL) with support of the Creative Europe Culture Programme of the European Union.
