The Project

Arroró. To rock. From a distance. In our own way. In the way our parents taught us. As our grandparents had taught them. Singing. Upholding a tradition that is eternal, beyond time and space.

ARRORRÓ is a project created by the artist Gabriela Golder. The work raises a search referred to the memory and the identity through documentary registry of lullabies in our country and around the World. For the online publication of the material a Web site has been created. It works as a data bank where the collected songs can be seen and listened.

ARRORRÓ intends to create spaces of conservation of the memory and evaluates the songs to sleep as tracks or impressions that represent the individual identity in the middle of the diversity.

Lullabies. Songs to wake up. Rhythms and sounds that can be understood beyond languages barriers, distance.

The recopilation of songs

For several months we traveled through Argentina to collect different lullabies sung by the inhabitants of different regions.

We also designed and developed a website that contains all these songs, and keeps on growing every day. We developed a very simple application with which visitors can record their song on the Web from anywhere in the world. We have, at the moment, an audiovisual archive of over 500 people singing.

ARRORRÓ's team continues traveling, looking for the approach to communities that has almost not access to Internet, to continue registering songs.

This project was conceived from an international call of the Austrian institution Ars Electronica for its program 80plus1.