22 May MEDITATIO SONUS 🗓 🗺
Special cycle of sound-guided meditations
Arte Abierto presents a special cycle of Meditatio Sonus. This sound art series proposes sound-guided meditations and fosters mindfulness through the practice of deep listening. In this edition, the series will run over two days, with two different meditations each day: one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
The meditations will take place in a gallery between Ugo Rondinone’s sculptures The Sun (2022) and The Moon (2022), creating an immersive experience that connects visual and sound art.
Commissioned sound artists will conduct research on the relationship between mind, sound, and technology. The four meditation sessions will be guided live through sound pieces created specifically for this series.
Meditatio Sonus is a space for researching the phenomenon of sound from the perspective of art, linking the practice of listening and meditation.
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MEDITATIO SONUS
Special cycle of sound-guided meditations
- SAT.JUN.07.2025 – 11:00 am and 5:00 pm
- SAT.JUN.08.2025 – 11:00 am and 5:00 pm
- Teens and adults
- Limited seating | Free admission
- Arte Abierto Pedregal | 2nd floor, ARTZ
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PUBLIC PROGRAM | long last happy
MEDITATIO SONUS – PROGRAM
SAT.JUN.07.2025 – 11:00 AM
SARMEN ALMOND
Through this sound meditation, entitled Inner Sea, we will seek to restore our full breathing, deep listening, and harmony within the physical and mental body. We will begin with exercises for full breathing and relaxation, to prepare us for meditation. Likewise, we will recognize our posture and consciously perceive our body, locating tension and releasing thoughts. Sound will connect us with our inner universe, with breathing emanating frequencies, calm whispers, and colors that trigger calm, stillness, and creativity.
SAT.JUN.07.2025 – 5:00PM
YAIR LÓPEZ
Bin bin a-rio is a set of music that emerges from three text scores, which intertwine to form a new, living score in constant interaction with people and the environment. Its practice is imbued with a Deep Listening approach, inviting deep listening (dreamlike, bodily, and sensorial). The piece proposes cycles that refer to the Earth’s tide: the continuous erosion of the Earth caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun, the ebb and flow of day and night. In this context, the duality of gender—male, female—is questioned and overflows, opening the way to a fluid exploration of the human: human, human, humane, humono…
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SUN.08.JUN.2025 – 11:00AM
HUGO SOLÍS
For this guided meditation session, the artist proposes drawing on techniques of constant rhythmic motifs that numerous cultures and traditions have used to generate rituals and collective trances. Mantras, prayers, rosaries, and numerous sound repetition techniques will be reinterpreted on an electroacoustic piano from a minimalist musical perspective, using delay and reverb techniques that ideally accompany the participants’ meditation.
The performance will be divided into two distinctly contrasting sections that reference the sculptural work in the space, intended to engage in dialogue with Ugo Rondinone’s work the sun and the moon. The first half of the sound experience will refer to slow, calm, and melancholic rituals, while the second will feature luminous and hopeful chants and rituals.
SUN.08.JUN.2025 – 5:00PM
ARCANGELO CONSTANTINI
As part of the Speaker Strings series, which explores sympathetic resonance, a unique string instrument has been reworked. A classical guitar, worn by decades of use, has been transformed into a four-string bass through radical modifications. The original hardware was replaced, and a door hinge was used as an improvised support for the strings. A subwoofer was also integrated into the speaker cabinet, expanding its sonic capabilities and giving it an experimental character.
Through this metamorphosis, the instrument is immersed in an existential flux, establishing dialogues with hypothetical aesthetic processes. Sympathetic resonance, understood as a poetic and aesthetic phenomenon, reveals a profound connection between two vibrant entities. When two systems achieve a harmonious affinity, an invisible flow of energy and meaning emerges. This shared resonance generates a symphony of emotions and understandings, seeking to transcend the limitations of language to create a deeper and more enigmatic communication with the audience.
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MEDITATIO SONUS
This is an initiative by Arcangelo Constantini and Marcela Armas, which emerged in Mexico City in 2012. They have held series at Ciudad Universitaria, in collaboration with the MUAC and the Alumnos 47 Foundation, at Casa del Lago, in collaboration with Casa Dharma, at the Los Pinos Cultural Complex, at the Museum of Art and History of Guanajuato, and at Casa Palmira Lázaro Cárdenas, in Cuernavaca.
Each series consists of eight sessions, held over eight consecutive Sundays.
www.arc-data.net/meditatiosonus/web
IG @meditatio_sonus
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SARMEN ALMOND
She is a Mexican musician and vocal performer. She is an intermedial artist and voice teacher specializing in the Roy Hart tradition. She holds a Master’s degree in Sonic Arts from Queen’s University, Belfast. armen uses voice and new technologies to create compositions and decompositions of personality on stage. He constantly explores the infinite vocal possibilities that the human body offers as an instrument, as well as the reflection of these sounds in physical and imaginary spaces, displayed through audio, images, and videos, displayed in real time on the performer’s body. Sarmen has performed in Mexico, England, France, Spain, Scotland, Prague, the Netherlands, and Singapore, among others; he also performed Marina Abramovic’s Luminocity and Joan Jonas’s Mirror Check at the 2011 Manchester International Festival in the UK. Almond has been an artist-in-residence at STEIM, Amsterdam (2008), as well as at Digital Art Studios, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2011), and NEIRO Association for Expanding Arts, Prague (2024).
sarmenalmond.wordpress.com/
IG @sarmen_almond
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YAIR LÓPEZ
G-sualdo A.K.A Yair López is a sound artist. He combines error, geophysical data, and poetry, materializing sound and audiovisual pieces. Starting as an active listener, he has performed field recordings and soundscapes, and co-directs Encuentro Internacional de Grabación de Campo. In 2025, he obtained the EAR certification from The Center for The Deep Listening, Troy, New York, USA, to teach Deep Listening workshops.
yairlopez.info/
IG @germen__
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HUGO SOLÍS
He is an electronic artist and professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. He holds a master’s degree from Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts, a DEA in Computer Science and Digital Communication from Pompeu Fabra University, and a PhD in Digital Art and Experimental Media from the University of Washington. His work has focused on the creative and aesthetic possibilities of the intersection of sound, digital, and interactive technologies.
He has exhibited works and given concerts in Mexico, Japan, Ireland, the United States, Spain, Brazil, Italy, Portugal, and Armenia. He has received support, scholarships, and recognition from FONCA, UNAM, TELMEX, MIT, the University of Washington, DXARTS, IMEB-Bourges, Centro Multimedia, Transitio_MX, and Leonardo, among others. He is currently a member of the National System of Researchers, Level I, and the National System of Art Creators.
hugosolis.net/
IG @hugosg76
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ARCANGELO CONSTANTINI
He is an artistic inventor and technological hacker who, in a constant existential speculation, develops experimental hypotheses about reality using a variety of media, multifaceted processes, and transdisciplinarity. He has created expanded network art, sound artifacts for performative improvisations, and interactive activations. He has conducted extensive research on water molecule anomalies, utilizing physical computing devices, interactive installations, and experiments with mantric machines.
His work has been exhibited at Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Museo de Arte Moderno, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Museo Tamayo, Museo Universitario del Chopo, and Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. He is a member of the National System of Creators.
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IG @arcdiablo
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long last happy by Ugo Rondinone is an exhibition that invites visitors to a luminous world inspired by the celestial forces of the natural world: the sun, the moon and the rainbow. Through monumental sculptures and an ongoing public participation project, Rondinone explores the themes of consolation, regeneration and spiritual connection.
