afluentes

'Afluentes' is an interactive installation where the sum of each participant's individualities leads to the amplified result of each one's powers. The intention is to show how each person has the power to influence the course of collective processes, changing their flow and indicating new paths. Each individual interaction is superimposed on those of the other participants, creating a collaborative synthesis that results in the generation of sounds and images in real time.

In practical terms, the installation consists of three heart rate sensors, a speaker, a container with water, a camera and a projector. Through the three sensors attached to it, an Arduino microcontroller receives the information and transforms it into sound, where the frequency of each sensor generates a different sound, which is synthesized in real time by the microcontroller. This sound is amplified by a speaker positioned with the "mouth" upwards, with a container of water on top of it.

Through a phenomenon called cymatics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatics), the sound waves coming from the speaker are translated into patterns of movement in the water, creating a visualization of the sound. When a second interactor begins to participate with its beat, the patterns generated become the sum of the two frequencies, altering the image that is formed in the container with water. The same happens when the third participant enters.

The intention of the work is to point out how each person's participation is vital for the realization of the whole, which in this case is materialized in sound and image. Every slight variation in the beat of one of the participants leads to the creation of new sound and visual patterns, radically modifying the final result.

I have been working with audiovisual installations and performances for over 15 years, seeking to create relationships between sound and image that somehow dialogue with human behaviors. Shapes, sounds, movements, frequencies - each audiovisu