A mantra is a mental formula that protects. It consists of one or more syllables that are chanted in a loop. Buddhist lama Anagarika Govinda calls mantras “mental tools… tools of the mind”. There is a concret mantra that accompanies us day and night, our lives oscillate around it, it is the mantra of electricity waves, a tone of 50Hz. This tone and its multiples are present all the time in our daily lives : in our kitchens and laundries, in the artificial light or in the tram. Discoveries have shown that anything that vibrates reacts to vibrations, even to most minute vibrations, brainwaves for instance. So, how do we perceive those tones ? Do we have a special bond with them or not ?
mantra 50Hz is a performance created by Andrés Navarro García and Damien . All the sounds are produced in live by the use of founded electric devices. These are activated on drum and cymbal surfaces, that serve as resonance bodies, and amplified. The audience encounters a nearly statique drummer as a result, contrasting with the wide range of sounds produce by those devices.
The electric sounds that until now we had perceived consciously or not were only the surface of a huge sonic ocean. Thanks to the electroacoustic amplification system use during the performance, the audience will be able to submerge and know this hidden ocean below the daily life surface.
