Two Stereos

The exhibition Dois Stereos [Two Stereos], presents two works by artist and musician João Pimenta Gomes connected by the ‘haunting’ of sound. The artist’s practice stems from references drawn from the field of music to explore the relationship between sound, space, and perception, as well as deep histories embedded yet obscured in the technologies of sound.

A replica of a sound device – the Western Electric 16A, an acoustic horn originally conceived for monophonic sound reproduction for movie theaters in the 1920s – occupies the first floor of the gallery. On the top floor of the gallery, an acoustic sound sculpture exists somewhere between breath and synthesis. The Cristal Baschet was an instrument comprised of glass and metal developed by the Baschet brothers in the 1950s.

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