Ricardo Atienza (1975, Madrid) is an architect, sound artist, researcher and lecturer in sound art at Konstfack (The University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm). Ricardo focuses his work on the situated experience of place, on the multiple embodied, social, sensorial and sensible interactions established with and within our daily environment. 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 will 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.

The yearlong project was supported by Konstnärsnämnden (the Swedish Arts Grants Committee), through a project grant received in 2018. We would like to thank Eva Helenius, chair of the Klaverens Hus Member’s Society, for granting access to the collection and to all the project participants for their cooperation and engagement.

Player Piano at Möbeln: closer to where it all started

The last event we organized within this project took place at the premiere of the Culture House Möbeln in Tierp, the main town of the municipality where Klaverens Hus is located. For one day we had the installation running in one of the rehearsal rooms of the newly renovated building. The diverse audience – from children to senior citizens – was very engaged creating music, with some members of the public returning to the installation several times during the day.