“Horizontes en Fuga" is an audiovisual concert that we held to celebrate the 10 years of the Alma observatory.
The installation was carried out in the Alma hangar, three thousand meters above sea level.
This is where the antennas are assembled and maintained, so the proposal was to maintain one of them on which the visuals were projected, adding to that the design of a sound system with twelve points in surround format, four subwoofers.
The project sought to interpret from an artistic vision the knowledge and discoveries of the observatory in these 10 years of history.
The invitation was for the audience to be part of the work, integrating themselves, where each attendee would also have the opportunity to tour the space and interact with the different events and sound structures that acted in sync with the visuals.
The sequence was mixed with Dolby Atmos, where each sound was treated as an independent object, each with its automations in terms of trajectories and positions to create a scenography built on the basis of sounds and the interaction of their movements.
In parallel with Dolby Atmos we work with Meyer Sound's Spacemap Go and its Galaxy processors, two tools with different approaches, two protocols coexisting.
The live instruments were spatialized from an iPad in real time, in sync with the visuals that were audio reactive.
In this way we established a dialogue between sound and visual elements through space, with two mechanisms for the implementation of spatial sound, from studio production to live installation.
Alma is the largest astronomical project in the world, 66 antennas that study the electromagnetic spectra emitted by astronomical objects and their radio frequencies.
They are elements that for us from music, sound, light and art make us connect shows.