'Building the Bass' Session, led by Natalia Figueredo
12 September 2026 · 18:00
Museu, el Poble-sec, Sants-Montjuïc
Vibration is a form of knowledge that passes through bodies before becoming language. In the world of sound systems, bass reorganises breathing, alters perception and turns the body into technology. It is in the body that frequency becomes experience, technique and memory. From this bodily dimension of sound, the activity takes the form of a guided listening session travelling through sounds from the Caribbean to the Brazilian Amazon. Each piece of music will be presented as an archive, not only as a sound recording but as a trace of techniques, cultural displacements and collective inventiveness. The circulation of these musics allows us to observe how frequencies travel, are translated, technically adapted and reinvented in new contexts. The aim is to understand how vibration produces spatiality, presence and forms of knowledge built through experimentation: testing, calibrating, repeating and adjusting. A form of knowledge materialised in shared practices through gathering, celebration and dance. Beyond the stories that will be shared, the speaker boxes themselves also tell stories. They narrate processes of handmade construction, experimentation at the limits of hearing and…
Part of the programme: Estiu als Museus. 21 activities in Barcelona, from February 26 to September 30.
Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona · checked on 8 September 2026