A pulse Upon the Earth
Duration
Year
Topics
Language
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Spanish
23 min
2025
Lithuanian,
English
A Pulse Upon the Earth is an experimental audio work about absence and presence: shifting landscapes, vanishing species, departed poets, and the echoes they leave behind. Set in Campocerrado, a historic estate in western Spain long shaped by livestock farming, the piece explores the delicate and intimate relationship between humans and the land.
Through field recordings, poetry, human voices and layers of history, the work moves from traditional Spanish pasturelands, ancient holm oaks and the voice of José the cowherd, to the rock engravings of Siega Verde, where the aurochs — the extinct ancestor of the bull — reappears in stone. The piece reflects on memory as a form of life: on what disappears, yet continues to pulse through landscape, sound and attention.
Recordings, editing, script, narrator voice and mix by Laura Romero Valldecabres.
With some texts by Luis Benítez, Antonio Francisco, Pliny the Elder and Julio Cortázar.
Commissioned radio-art work by Miguel Álvarez Fernández (Ars Sonora, RNE-National Spanish Radio)
With the support of Fundación Campocerrado.
Translated to English by Juande Blasco.
Laura Romero Valldecabres
Laura Romero Valldecabres is a freelance audio artist and researcher from Spain, currently based in France. She creates sound design and storytelling projects for radio, podcasts, and sound installations. Her work weaves together field recordings, cultural heritage, orality and poetry, with a strong commitment to preserving memory across diverse territories. She has received First Prize at the Grand Prix Nova International Radio Drama Festival (2021) and the UK International Audio Drama Festival (2022), as well as the Bronze Award for Best Documentary at Prix Marulić (2023). Holding a PhD in Communication and Sound Studies, she works across both artistic and academic contexts and regularly organizes public listening sessions.
