You, an unsoaked red bean
Situated sound walk
This composition is an intimate sonic journey of my friendship with Esteban. In this piece, I take food as a lens to talk about identity and interpersonal relations. Asking multiple common friends in the Netherlands the question: ‘If Esteban would be a dessert, what would he be?’, we composed together an interwoven sonic metaphor of friendship. End of 2020, Esteban returned to his home country Costa Rica - a move creating physical distance between his and my life. Listening back to YOU, AN UNSOAKED RED BEAN is an evocative step into the past which brings back a sense of closeness. It is a reminder of the power of sonic mediums to transcend geographical distances and create spaces of proximity.
You, an unsoaked red bean
Photo: Esteban Montero Sanchez