Accidental Paths Sonic Department.Walking, perception and sonic experimentation.

Soundtracking perception: APSD is an ongoing audiovisual practice exploring how music can alter the experience and interpretation of everyday environments.

Accidental Paths Sonic Department (APSD) emerged from observational walking. I had begun using instrumental music as a way of becoming more present during my walks, gradually noticing that music was not simply accompanying my surroundings, but actively changing how I perceived them. Certain places, movements and atmospheres began to feel different depending on what I was hearing.

After getting a portable EP-133 K.O. II sampler, I started creating my own “music for walking”: improvised beats and sequences that accompanied me through different environments. Walking, listening, photographing and sampling gradually became interconnected, with each place influencing the sounds I created and the music influencing how I interpreted the place.

These experiments eventually became APSD, an ongoing exploratory practice where music and visual work develop together. Each track receives its own visual identity through photography, collage and exaggerated editing, translating the atmosphere of the music into surreal, mysterious and sometimes otherworldly imagery.

Rather than separating music from the environment, APSD explores the space between them: how sound can become a lens for experiencing a place, and how a place can become material for sound.

Type: Audiovisual / sonic exploration
Format: Ongoing music and visual series
Sound: Sampling / sequencing / field-inspired composition
Equipment: Teenage Engineering EP-133 K.O. II, KO-33, Zoom H1n, Canon Rebel t6, multiple instruments and synthesizers
Visuals: Photography / collage / digital image manipulation
Methods: Walking / improvisation / listening / photography / sound experimentation / sampling
Music & Visuals: Marcelo Guajardo Dávila
Status: Ongoing

Music equipment from MAAJAAM

Residency at the Helsinki Electronics Music Studio

Changing perception and creative practice through the senses.

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