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This project took us deep into the desert — a place where sound has no walls, and silence has weight. “Dune Sonic” was born from the idea that music doesn’t need an audience, only an echo. Over three nights, artists and sound engineers built a solar-powered stage surrounded by sand dunes, where wind replaced reverb and stillness became rhythm. What started as a logistical nightmare turned into a quiet revelation about creation, isolation, and listening beyond yourself.
A. Álvarez
Sep 22, 2023
There’s something disorienting about hearing music in a place that rejects it. The desert doesn’t give sound back — it swallows it whole. When we first arrived to build the “Dune Sonic” stage, we thought we were bringing art into emptiness. We were wrong. The emptiness was the art. The space reshaped every note, every frequency, every human attempt to impose order. Our performers learned to play with the desert, not against it. The stillness became our collaborator, dictating tempo, tone, and energy. By the end, what began as an installation felt like communion — a reminder that creation often happens in surrender. Dune Sonic wasn’t about performance; it was about presence. About understanding that sometimes, the loudest message is the one carried by the wind.
How do you translate emotion visually in a live setting?
You stop treating visuals as decoration. Light isn’t just to be seen — it’s to be felt. We worked frame by frame, composing with shadows, letting silence dictate color. The show became a dialogue between brightness and darkness, rhythm and stillness. People didn’t need to understand it — they just needed to surrender to it. The beauty of “Silver Frame” was that it refused clarity; it thrived in ambiguity. That’s where emotion hides — not in clarity, but in confusion that still feels true.
“People think silence means nothing, but it’s the rawest form of music — it holds everything we’re afraid to hear.”
Leandro Cruz, Sound Director
