Óscar Bueno Rodríguez

La excitación del paisaje is an artistic research project that approaches landscape not as something given, but as a relationship: the one established between the viewer and what is being viewed. Within this intersection, landscape emerges as a field of questions about our relationship with the environment.

Body, image, and sound are activated as tools to shift this relationship and to rehearse other ways of connecting with the environment. It is not only about looking, but about asking what happens in that act, what kind of presence it produces, and how it can be transformed.

This project stems from the research process La excitación del paisaje: La roca blanda, carried out in the Pyrenees between late 2025 and early 2026. It corresponds to Landscape No. 4 and focuses on the landscapes we construct with mountains. In contrast to their scale and apparent immobility, rock—hard, heavy—is proposed as a sensitive matter: something that can be listened to, circled, imagined, and even moved. It can also be softened: its weight altered, its scale shifted, opened to other perceptions. To be seen from other viewpoints and brought closer to the body.

The project unfolds through different formats—gatherings, visual and sound materials, and a scenic device—and, in this case, takes the form of an expanded lecture: a space where the mountain attempts to overflow, soften, and narrate itself.
 

I imagine a stage. I imagine a person on that stage. In silence. I imagine the spectators looking at this person in this stage. I imagine this person moving. I imagine the observation of these spectators that are watching. I imagine that the person on the stage explains that each movement is a sound. I imagen that the person on stage starts to move again. I imagine the minds of the spectators beginning to sound. I imagine their sound trip. I imagen that in that huge silence a lot of marvelous musics are appearing, so I imagine that there is no silence anymore.

Soundtrack is a soundtrack and it is also the soundtrack of itself. And at the same time there are many soundtracks, as many as there are listeners, as many as there are “performers”. Because the listener and the performer are the same person. The performer is the sheet: a sheet that manipulate a lot of sheets. Therefore Soundtrack is the soundtrack of several soundtracks listened and made by multiple listener/ performers.

In Soundtrack I work with the idea of Soundidation. An invented word through a small etymological drift:

• Imagen: from latin imago (portrait, copy, imitation).

• Imaginación: from latin imaginatio. It means “action and effect of forming a mental figure” (an image). Its lexical components are: imago (portrait), plus the suffix -ción (action and effect).

• Sonido: from latin sonitus and it means “feeling of listening”. Its lexical components are : sonare (to make a noise), plus the suffix -ido (quality perceptible by the senses).

• Sonidación (Soundidation): action and effect of forming a mental sound. Its lexical components are: sonare (to produce a sound), plus the suffix -ción (action and effect).