Enrique del Castillo

Thanks to our ability to listen, we are able to update sound spaces, constructing and reconstructing our memories and identities, our way of relating to one another and our ways of being and existing in the world.

It is important to stress the active role that the experience of sound plays in the construction of the social fabric, because the fact is that listening, both as an object and as a tool for analysis, allows us to connect reflexivities, knowledge and agencies.

Which is why actively listening to a sound piece changes and shapes its environment.

Soundtrait Film Series is a research project based on the possibility of translating light into sound using 35 mm film as a medium.

It is also an interrelational project that aims to generate a practical exchange of experimentation between the artist and the urban and artistic context of the city.

The title refers to the characteristic features that in each work reflect the environment in which it was made and, to a certain extent, portray it.

BIO

Enrique del Castillo (1982) is a graphic artist and musician. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Granada and a master's degree in Artistic Production and Research from the University of Barcelona. He studied classical music at the Ramón Garay Professional Conservatory of Music in Jaén. He has been working on experimental music, sound art and expanded cinema sound performance art since 2007, using instruments he has dreamed up and made himself. Since 2018 he has been carrying out research into sound on celluloid and analogue optical reading, devising a system to transpose the frequency of the waves produced by pure notes into repeating patterns.

He is currently combining his research in this field with composition, installation and sound performance art. He received the first Powsolo International Sound Art Award in 2020 and has presented his work in art centres such as Arts Santa Mònica, MACBA, Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània, Tabakalera Donosti, Matadero Madrid and La Casa Encendida, among others.

He is a recipient of the Mobility Residency for Visual Artists of Matadero Madrid’s Centre for Artists in Residence in collaboration with MeetFactory, Prague.