Abstract
Lithium explores an element whose presence extends from the early universe to the batteries powering our devices, from mineral waters to psychiatric treatment. Across these dimensions, lithium participates in shaping how worlds are experienced and imagined, while materially supporting the technologies through which its own image takes form.
At the LMTA Spatial Sound Lab, relations encountered through research into lithium are developed into operational schemes that guide the organization of field recordings and synthesized sound. Through recursive experimentation, listening to the resulting sounds informs the system’s reconfiguration, shaping how sound unfolds across space and time.
This multichannel study explores how lithium’s sonic image takes form through its material relations, and how that image can, in turn, open possibilities for other relations with lithium, making post-extractive futures imaginable and thinkable.
BIO
- Nico Espinoza
- Roberto Becerra
