Os eixos do meu carro deixaram de soar
Anthropologist & artist Xabier Erkizia was invited to take part in “Playing the Rural Landscape”, a series of artist residencies around the theme of sonic connections with rural landscape, one of which took place in October 2015 in the rural village of Fataunços (municipality of Vouzela). The artist developed one interaction of his long-standing sound anthropology project around oxcarts, one that has led/will lead him to such places like the Azores Islands, Brazil, Africa and Asia. Erkizia produced a radio piece (Os Eixos do meu Carro Deixaram de Tocar) using some collected materials, like recordings of oxcarts in the fields and interviews with some of their owners about the local traditions of using the oxcarts.
Xabier Erkizia (1975) is a Basque Country musician, sound artist, producer and journalist. His work is based on research among different people, sounds and formats in different situations as sound installations, recordings and musical compositions, radio art pieces, and collective improvisations. Since 2000 he directs ERTZ Festival and has published several essays on the phenomenon of listening, being also one of the coordinators of Audiolab, a Basque sound art organization.