Los Contornos is a series of drawings, scores, songs, and handmade objects that emerge from the contours of mountains.
The project began during a period of research in the Aragonese Pyrenees, where I collected and drew mountain silhouettes as a way of spending time with the landscape. These drawings are not representations of the mountains but traces of a relationship with them. They function simultaneously as contours, scores, and records of attention.
The work follows a simple operation: I sing what I see while drawing my own singing. Looking, singing, and drawing happen at the same time. The resulting line is shaped not only by the mountain's profile, but also by the movement of the voice and the gesture of the hand. Each drawing becomes a double translation: from landscape to song, and from song to drawing.
Inspired by the idea of songlines, the project imagines mountains that can be recognized not only by their shape but also by their melody. Each contour contains a possible song; each song becomes a way of traversing a landscape.
These melodies are developed as compositions for voice and piano, moving between folk, pop, experimental music, and glissando-based vocal practices. Alongside them, an archive of photographs, texts, and observations gathered during moments of drawing and contemplation forms a constellation of references around each mountain.
The final scores are written on handmade paper produced from materials collected in the same landscapes: fallen leaves, soil, flowers, and fragments of wood. The mountain thus becomes not only the origin of the song, but also its physical support. Landscape becomes melody, melody becomes drawing, and drawing returns to the materiality of the landscape.
