Ricardo Atienza Badel

Sweden (residence)
research interests: sonic ambiences, in situ experience, space design
affiliation: Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts & Design
en

Researcher, Sound Artist, PhD Architect.

Senior lecturer in Sound Art at Konstfack (Stockholm, Sweden).

Research leader for the Art Department.

A focus on the situated experience of place, on the multiple embodied, social, sensorial and sensible interactions established with and within our daily environments. Sound, as a qualified experience of place becomes here a main explorative tool and material for approaching the complexity of our everyday spaces and situations. The resulting research processes adopt interdisciplinary methods and transversal public forms such as sonic-spatial installations, in-situ interventions in the public space, electroacoustic and radiophonic compositions or sound design pieces.

research

research expositions

  • Placed Sounds Displaced. Sound as a practice in between Art, Architecture and Design (last edited: 2020) author(s): Ricardo Atienza Badel connected to: Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Keywords: Sound Art, Sound-Space, Resonance, Sonic Ambiences, Interdisciplinarity. This exposition aims at sharing a “cross-border” exploration between sonic and spatial research fields. These are traditionally presented and understood as distinct knowledge areas, e.g. Sound Art, Sound Architecture, Sound Design, etc. However, they are intimately connected in experiential and practice-based terms. A number of referential sound pieces have been chosen here in order to survey this in-between sound-space territory. Each piece prompts a micro-study that reflects on specific interdisciplinary traits. The purpose is to reveal common components and characteristics, parallel or symmetric processes in sound-space disciplines. To that extent, the micro-studies focus on transversal concepts and methods such as resonance, listening, sonic space, sonic ambiences, graphic scores and the materiality of sound, among others. These referential cases are presented in dialogue with collective and individual sound-space explorations that the author has performed as a researcher, pedagogue and practitioner. All these materials are presented in a non-linear open form in which the visitor is encouraged to choose different paths and to establish own connections among the exposed cases and examples, including his/her own references and pieces. An intended contribution of this exposition is to nurture a culture of openness at disciplinary boundaries, promoting fertile contagions among in-friction practice and research areas.
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  • Espèces d’Espaces / Species of Spaces (last edited: 2023) author(s): Ricardo Atienza Badel This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Espèces d’Espaces / Species of Spaces is an artistic research project funded by Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts & Design. Its overall focus is the experience of sonic spaces, the intimate relation between body, surrounding space and its exclusive sonic expression. With a practice-based approach, this project pays specific attention to physic acoustics auralisation methods and tools (3D virtual sonic modelling) with an aim to explore in particular how can these processes be transposed to the realm of artistic research. As a part of this project, we will share in this exposition a case study based on a specific space and construction: a XVIIth century cloister preserved today as a central element of the extension of Museo del Prado in Madrid as planned by architect Rafael Moneo at the beginning of the 2000. This cloister was previously a main component of the monastic ensemble of San Jerónimo el Real. This case study at Prado’s cloister starts thus in the realm of traditional architectural acoustics (measurement, 3D graphic modelling and auralisation) for later performing a series of experiments in the form of spatial and temporal variations and displacements. Experiments based on a number of artistic architectural (alternative realities of a space) and sonic/musical practices including improvisation or electroacoustic composition.
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