notho-notho is a performative sound installation activated by a feedback system running through a network of tensioned strings. This network stretches across the space, creating an architecture of tensions that resonates in real time. The acoustically amplified sound is altered by the action of the body, generating a recursive cycle of vibrations that continuously and subtly transforms the sonic quality of the space. The installation is based on a non-hierarchical logic: body, material, and sound coexist within a sensitive, interdependent system.

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The project takes as its starting point the word Nothofagus betuloides, the scientific name imposed on a family of trees native to southern Chilean Patagonia, meaning ‘False Fagus’, a reference to its subordination to the European beech (Fagus), and a reflection of colonial structures embedded in the classification of nature. In contrast, the Mapuche name Coihue (ko: water, we: place) describes a situated relationship, or an inclination, for and with the environment. This tension between naming systems inspires the physical inclination of the structure itself, which challenges verticality and rectitude as dominant forms, proposing instead an oblique, decentered mode of listening that remains connected to the territory.