Sound Installation "Spiral of Time (Espiral del temps)"
10 July 2026 – 11 January 2027 · 11:00
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, el Raval, Ciutat Vella
From 10 July 2025 to 11 January 2027, you can listen to Spiral of Time (Espiral del temps) from the museum's exhibition space. A site-specific work that has been recording the ambient sounds of Plaça dels Àngels since July 2024, constructing a sonic and temporal narrative of the space. Sound is intangible and ephemeral, yet it can still be one of the defining characteristics of the spaces it occupies. Spiral of Time is an in-situ work by artist, composer and researcher Edwin van der Heide (Hilversum, 1970) that explores sound and its relationship with space and time. A system of microphones installed on the façade of the Centre d'Estudis i Documentació del MACBA has been recording the ambient sounds of Plaça dels Àngels since 17 July 2024 and will continue to do so until July 2027. The resulting sound archive, organised by time intervals, offers different ways of understanding the idiosyncrasies of the museum's immediate surroundings through cyclical sound patterns generated by the rhythms of both nature and human activity. The archive forms a sonic portrait in which patterns that are often imperceptible in real time emerge through sounds captured at different moments. Presented…
Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona · checked on 8 September 2026