When you enter the building you enter the biscuit, a site specific sound installation that was created in the former biscuit factory that now houses Espacio Open during The Echoing River project. The sound installation immerses the audience inside a biscuit that was once produced inside this particular building.

Dr John Fass was the main lab lead. Alaistair Steele, Dr Tyler Fox and myself were the other 3 lab facilitators. During this project we all did some interventions ourselves as well. As for me I helped out on the “Hydrophonic Fishing” with Dr John Fass.

Photo : John Fass

These hydrophone fishing recordings formed the base for the sound design I did for the Tent project which was realised with Dr John Fass and Dr Tyler Fox. The idea is that you draw on the walls of the tent and take inspiration from the sound by doing so.

The Echoing River is a DRS2022 Bilbao Lab project that expresses the relationship between Zorrotzaurre and the river that surrounds it. Working at Espacio Open, 14 students from London and Bilbao have collaborated to materialise this relationship. They present a series of spatial and acoustic experiences that position sonic placemaking as a way to enable shared imagining. Post industrial urban environments offer irresistible opportunities for gentrification. Our aim is to build a shared culture of radical openness in an area of the city currently threatened by property speculation. The process of generating experimental ideas, sharing material explorations, and collaborating across disciplines offers an alternative to orthodox consultation.With this lab we sought to value what is already there here and to show that the fragile and [recasious working and living conditions on Zorrotzaurre represent a social and material ecosystem that should be nourished and supported.