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Society here seems to be receding to totalitarian principles in immediate routine.. Guardia Civil are patrolling the streets, helicopters and drones seeking to arrest lonesome walkers and folks calling the cops on people who stood and looked at the ocean for too long. It's pretty nerve wrecking and scarier than the virus to me.
The guy who built this in 1997 (Dyinn Eadel) wanted to open a cinema in the Egyptian desert but was met with last minute bureaucratic resistance from the authorities. The theater was left to rot and one month after these pictures were taken (in 2014) the place was destroyed.
I couldn't find out much else about Dyinn Eadel except that he's from France and used to be a part-time actor (and that his name sounds made up). I found his old twitter https://twitter.com/lifedreamart . Even though the idea of an open air cinema in the desert is nice, I always felt it was failure that turned this thing into a piece of art. The suggestion of a large group of people sitting down to look at the range of the hills, in expectance of something uncertain, is a picture that's just more interesting. My fascination with empty Tribünen and people waiting for a significant nothing goes back further than this but it was sometime last year that it combined with another thing.. twice a year they build up a stage in the harbour and have concerts there (mostly mariachi-like Spanish traditional bands). The stage and PA is positioned towards the mountain wall. I decided to take a walk and ended up in a spot where the echo was almost louder than the source. I had no recording device with me and was hammered but I was blown away by the ghostly sounds that bounced back from the stone. I started to think about the physical possibility of eliminating as much as possible from the source of the music and listening to a concert that is mostly the echo, ranging from hauntingly chaotic to almost inaudible.. I got very excited at the prospect of combining the desolate Tribüne with a sonic experience in which the musicians are nowhere to be seen. It's a pipe dream probably and absurdist in these times to think about but .. I made a shitty sketch:
Found close to nothing on the internet about anyone having seriously worked with the medium, only a bunch of folks shouting at hills, sometimes a trumpet.
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