Recordar

2021-23 Fay Chandler Creativity Grant

Deborah Garcia’s RECORDAR. Credit: Graphic Services
Deborah Garcia’s RECORDAR. Credit: Graphic Services
Deborah Garcia’s RECORDAR. Credit: Graphic Services
Deborah Garcia’s RECORDAR. Credit: Graphic Services

A spatial sound system for communal navigating, layering, and remixing

About

There is a noise coming from the institution, from deep within. There is a noise coming from the table.

RECORDAR is a multi-channel recording and broadcasting sound system, scaled to the dimensions of the theatrical for acts—past, present, and future. 

When activated for live performance and real-time engagement, the  recording system can be engaged (and disengaged) through a touch-sensor system. When not engaged for live performance, recordings are composed into an audio experience emanating from eight surrounding thrones—eight sound towers with integrated seating. 

The ghostly history of the RECORDAR is present even when not occurring in real-time or even in the space itself.

Schedule

Upcoming Events

RECORDAR Exhibition at MIT

MIT Department of Architecture’s Keller Gallery, Building 7-408
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Event: Live Performance of RECORDAR
April 7, 2023 / 5:30pm

On display, free and open to the public
April 7 – May 12, 2023
Mondays through Saturdays, 9:00am – 6:00pm

RECORDAR performance at Exhibit Columbus 2023

August 25 & 26, 2023
Columbus, Indiana

The exhibition features outdoor, site-responsive installations created by 2022–23 participants.

Collaborators

MIT Department of Architecture’s 2020-21 Marion Mahony Emerging Practitioner Fellow Deborah Garcia is a designer, writer, and curator. 

Biography: MIT Architecture Department 
Social: Instagram

Credits

Directed by Deborah Garcia

A SEAT AT THE TABLE is funded in part by a 2022 Fay Chandler Creativity Grant awarded by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology.