We are a collective of art professionals dedicated to the exploration of new forms of representation and enhancement of acoustic and sound heritage.

Our lines of action include:

3D Safeguarding of Acoustic and Sound Heritage
Workshops and lectures
Research and Dissemination
Immersive experiences production VR / XR / 360
Sound Design for digital applications
Equipment Rental

Contact

acousticheritagecollective@gmail.com
patrimoniacustic@gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/company/acoustic-heritage-collective/

+ Latest Works: Portfolio

In recent years we have participated in various initiatives combining work for heritage administrations, artistic residencies, research and mobility grants, as well as strong academic work with university programs and papers.

The sounds of industry - Catalonia

https://patrimoniacustic.cat/mnactec/index.html
https://www.acousticatlas.de/locations/Museu_del_Ciment

The sounds of industry: the archive of the sound and acoustic heritage of the evolution of science and technology in Catalonia". On this website you can explore the sounds of the different machines and museum spaces of the MNACTEC network.

La Capella: A set of audio tools for sound art

https://acousticheritagecollective.org/lacapella/index.html

The project aims to safeguard the acoustic heritage of La Capella de l'Antic Hospital in Barcelona by identifying its main acoustic characteristics through the following actions:
i) in-situ acoustic ambisonic measurements, ii) acoustic simulation of the original structure using software, iii) creation of an impulse response library and iv) design of a real-time auralization tool.

Acoustic Heritage of the Abbot’s Cliff sound mirror

https://acousticheritagecollective.org/soundmirror/index.html

Strategies on its safeguard addressing past usage, present conditions and future applications

Journey to the Center of the SOUND (Design of 1st spatial AV approach)

Residency at MONOM, Berlin
https://patrimoniacustic.cat/journey/home.html

"Journey to the Centre of the Sound" invites listeners on a sonic journey through the landscapes of this European island, combining field recordings, music and poetry. In 2022, this work was awarded the Goethe Institute Virtual Preparation Grant for Residencies and was selected to be part of the Monom Residency in Berlin, the UK Sonic Mapping Conference Residency and will be installed on the 25 loudspeakers at the phonos foundation in Barcelona.

Procés
Residency at Phonos Foundation
https://youtu.be/HMKUs6F3Qg4
https://phonosbcn.bandcamp.com/album/proc-s-live-at-phonos

PROCÉS is a sound piece composed by Barcelona based artist Pi /EMARX during his residency at Phonos Foundation. All the sounds of this piece have been recorded in original machinery of the process of Catalan industrialization during the last two years. In this three-movement multichannel piece the sounds have been distributed in space in layers, just as in an orchestra the instruments are grouped according to their nature. No sound has been processed. No sound has been recreated. This 16 minute piece has been supported by generative visual elements by J. Lavandeira

Soroll
Residency at Estruch Media Lab
https://patrimoniacustic.cat/soroll/home.html

Through an investigation of documentary sources and artistic practice we build a bridge between the past of the textile city and the current city Catalan. Through an artistic critical narrative based on digital tools such as convolution, spatialization, sound files and three-dimensional environments that we want
ask us: Can we draw parallels between different social structures through a comparative study of their noises?
Aren't modern cities a chaotic abstraction of textile colonies? The chains of production and consumption of present are nothing more than a broken mirror of the past that prevents us from seeing clearly the current precariousness?

Safeguard the acoustic heritage of El Prat
UNZIP Call 2021 Music and Territory Modality
https://lacapsa.org/rescatem-el-patrimoni-acustic-i-sonor-del-prat/

Project that makes visible the threats to heritage and promotes awareness of the active role that the community can have to generate political, critical, aesthetic and artistic discourses through music and listening

Safeguarding Acoustic Heritage of Thingvellir National Park
I-Portunus heritage mobility grant

https://thingvelliracoustics.tumblr.com/

This project addresses the condition of acoustic heritage of Icelandic Park of Thingvellir through free response responses and the designation of specific auralization tools. In parallel, activities are coordinated at the University of Iceland and at the Icelandic University of the Arts

L'Auditori

https://patrimoniacustic.cat/Auditori/index.html

Ambisonic Impulse Responses are recorded at L'Auditori de Barcelona with the aim of auralizing a sound source in different positions of the public.

Sonotomía Residency - Albarracín

https://sonotomia.com/

SONOTOMIA is a European project that merges two concepts, the intangible and tangible cultural heritage, in a very innovative way. Music, biodiversity as well as historical sites and buildings are connected to sound in different ways. Sound is a powerful tool to link and connect the past with future, just as cultural heritage does. The values and unique characteristics of shared cultural heritage can be captured and transmitted through shared sounds.

+Residencies and Scholarships

2023 MANIFEST residency programme – Artistic Journey, re-imagining Europe’s collective memory of the transatlantic trade of enslaved people and its existing cultural traces, BUDAPEST, LISBON, NANTES

2023 IRCAM Forum Workshops 2023 “Video game technology as an AV art and culture dissemination strategy: Case study "Journey to the center of sound" in the MONOM 4D sound system” Presentation

2022 Winner of the Grant for the modernization and innovation of the cultural and creative industries for the year 2022, Ministry of Culture and Sports of Spain

2022 Conference SC2022, University of Kent, Wave Field Synthesis Artist in Residence @A+E Lab, Chatham, UK

2022 Goethe-Institut e.V., Music Division VIRTUAL PREPARATION FOR RESIDENCIES

2022 MONOM Residency, Journey to the center of the earth, Berlin, Germany.

2022 PHONOS LAB UPF, EMARX residency, PROCÈS: Un trànsit sonor pel procés d’industrialització de Catalunya Amb la participació de Joan Lavandeira, Barcelona, Spain

2022 ESTRUCH, Medialab Residency Scholarship, “SOROLL” Sound Art Installation, Sabadell, Spain 2021 SONOTOMIA RESIDENCY 2.0 - Preservation of Albarracín sound heritage, Albarracín, Spain

2021 I-portunus Mobility in CULTURAL HERITAGE “Safeguarding Acoustic Heritage of Thingvellir National Park”, Iceland

2021 UNZIP Música i territori Scholarship, Rescatant el patrimoni acústic del Prat a través de la Música, El Prat del Llogregat, Spain

+Academics

2023 EuropeanaTech 2023 Conference - Explore, Engage, Experience: cultural heritage in the data space and beyond, the Netherlands, The Hague. “Preserving acoustic heritage: a workshop on safeguarding, digitisation, and immersive experiences”

2023 "Heritage Noises: Acoustic and Sound Archive of Catalan Industry", 54th IASA CONFERENCE & 4th ICTM FORUM, Collaborating to preserve and safeguard audiovisual and related heritage Istanbul

2023 "Gothic Acoustics in Contemporary Art: A Set of Audio Tools for La Capella" Gothic Resonances, international symposium, Sorbonne Université. Palais des Papes, Avignon, Mathias Klenner, EMARX

2023 Acoustic Heritage of the Abbot’s Cliff sound mirror: Strategies on its safeguard addressing past usage, present conditions and future applications, Sounding Modernism, An interdisciplinary conference, King’s College London

2022 Acoustic heritage of Logberg in Thingvellir National Park: impulse response library and an approach to future studies, Conference SC2022, University of Kent. https://thingvelliracoustics.tumblr.com/

2021 Workshop: Simulated acoustic spaces into digital artistic practice, ICELAND UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS / NAIP: European Master in Music, Prof. Berglind María Tómasddóttir

2021 Lecture, UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND / CULTURAL HERITAGE COURSE, Prof. Vilhelmína Jónsdóttir, Department of Folkloristics/Ethnology University of Iceland

2021 Acoustic heritage: challenges of the community in its safeguarding, Vol. 16 No. 31 (2021): City and sound art: The edition covers both the work of artists who explore sound in its pure state while dissolving the barriers between sound, noise and music in the historical or contemporary sense, as well as those who They investigate the political and cultural implications of certain sounds to exalt human rights.

https://revistas.uan.edu.co/index.php/nodo/issue/view/129