Blanca Tolsá & Albert Tarrats. microdesfase
With microdesfase [micro-gap], Blanca Tolsà and Albert Tarrats transform the access stairway to the terrace of the Museu Tàpies into a sonorous, choreographic organism. Through movement, voice and live modulation, they activate a dialogue with the reverberating acoustics of the space, creating a kaleidoscopic landscape where the body, sound and technology mutually alter each other.
The piece begins with a marginally unstable tone, insisting on it until it gives way to tiny shifts and harmonic tensions: tonalities that emerge like an organic relief, an auditory mirage that defies perceptions, encouraging a certain kind of hallucination.
The sound injected into the space returns transformed: the architecture breathes, responding in an unexpected way, enlivening its own memory. It is no longer an inert container, but converts itself into a shared, porous body. The activation of the surroundings—seeking to refer to the practice of Antoni Tàpies himself, reviving the everyday as a potentially magical dimension—emphasises subtle gestures, miniscule shifts and the echoes that persist when the main sound fades.
Just like Tàpies, who gazed intently at a wall to achieve some degree of illumination inspired in Zen practice, microdesfase proposes a contemplative experience where careful listening reveals the concealed bounty of what apparently seem insignificant.
Located in a transition space, on the way to the Tàpies’ Mitjó [Sock] sculpture, the performance calls on the public to inhabit a space of auditory illusion and sensorial alteration. In this case, vision is blurred and listening becomes the focal point of an experience that is at once collective and intimate, where sound seems to arise both out of the body and out of the air surrounding it, erasing the boundaries between emission, echo and reflex.
