In La Orejona Records, Nicole L’Huillier works with sound, vibrations, and resonances to explore the poetics of sonic unintelligibility. A membranal listening apparatus for more-than-human entities, La Orejona is a sculpture that acts as a recording studio. With its elastic vibrational-membrane-microphone, it can record phenomena such as sound waves, touch-activated oscillations, and tremors from the ground. An apparatus for fuzzy, confusing signals, La Orejona is used for obfuscation and noise and weaves independent signals into a collective, inseparably muddy mass of sound.
During the festival, La Orejona will be activated by the artist through a programme of recording sessions of improvised call-and-response encounters, poetry readings, and storytelling, collective screaming sessions, and more. Making up the archive of La Orejona Records, each recording session will be materialized into handmade 5” vinyl records and cassette tapes and given away as gifts to participants.
Nicole L‘Huillier was part of the transmediale residency 2022 in cooperation with Chile. La Orejona Records was developed during the residency.