Frequencies at the site is a participatory sound installation by the artist María Mieres that transforms the everyday sounds of each locality into a piece of ambient and electronic music created live.
Before each performance, the artist carries out field recordings in the town, capturing characteristic sounds of the surroundings —bells, fountains, footsteps, wind, voices and birds— which are subsequently incorporated into the composition. Each performance thus emerges from the acoustic identity of each town and becomes a unique experience.
During the performance, María Mieres combines these recordings with analogue and digital synthesisers to construct a soundscape in which technology, place and memory engage in dialogue. The audience participates by triggering some of the recorded sounds via a controller, thereby becoming an active part of the improvisation.
‘Frecuencias del lugar’ invites listeners to hear their surroundings from a new perspective, revealing the rich soundscape of each town and transforming its everyday landscapes into a collective experience of contemporary creation.
This performance can be enjoyed on 25, 26 and 27 September in various towns as part of the ‘Arte en las Plazas de Asturias’ programme:
- CANDÁS – Friday 25 September, from 7.00 pm to 8.30 pm
- PRAVIA – Saturday 26 September, from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm
- CANGAS DE ONÍS – Sunday 27 September, from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm
ABOUT THE ARTIST
María Mieres (Avilés, Asturias, 1989) is a musician, sound designer and artist specialising in the creation of soundscapes, electronic music and experimentation with acoustic materials. After playing guitar and singing with the shoegaze band Seven Tin Stars, she co-founded the musical project San Jerónimo with Nacho Iglesias, a melancholic electro-pop act that has taken part in projects and collaborations with Radio 3, the Cerralbo Museum, New European Bauhaus and the Mexican Cultural Centre in Spain.
In recent years, she has focused her practice on sound design, composing soundscapes for artistic and audiovisual projects in venues such as the MAXXI Museum in Rome and the Oviedo Arms Factory. She has also worked on film soundtracks, such as the short film Roshni, screened at the 2026 Málaga Film Festival, and on sound design projects for advertising.
In 2023, she was awarded an artist-in-residence programme at the Sound Laboratory of the Centre for Art and Industrial Creation at the Universidad Laboral in Gijón, where she researched the interaction of water and metal with sound. She currently combines her work as a sound designer and DJ with writing and other creative projects. Her first book is due to be published by Penguin Random House in October 2026.
