Vinyl LP12’’ (45rpm), photograph, graphics. Exclusive edition of 100 copies
Production and post-production of sound made with Rafael Martínez del Pozo
This is the first piece in a series of field recordings on hop-growing cultures, studied through its stories, memories, work songs and landscapes, under the title Amargura. Ecologías del lúpulo. Susana Cámara proposes the creation of a treatise about bitterness, an investigation in which she collects, visualises and creates objects and materials that serve as an archive and reflection on the policies of consumption and hop-growing.
The recordings are inspired by the concept of diaphonic sound proposed by the artist José Val del Omar and is based on the opposition of sounds as a psychic counterpoint and dialogue. In that way, there is a succession of sounds from the industrialised landscape of the cultivation and the automation of its harvest, as opposed to the sung and narrated experiences of four hop-growers from the village of Gavilanes de Órbigo, who peel hops by hand.
This residency is a Cristina Enea Foundation and Tabakalera collaboration. It has been awarded by Madrid Government through its support to Visual Arts in 2019 and in collaboration with SAT hops of León.