Two pieces by Guillermo Galindo are included in the exhibition Seeing through Stone and the artist discusses both in the interview below.

Ojo / Eye, 2015 consists of a bicycle wheel the Border Patrol ran over to prevent its use which Galindo has refashioned it into an antenna for a theremin, an instrument that produces sound when one interferes with its electromagnetic field. The instrument’s inventor, Leon Theremin, developed the technology into an electronic motion-sensing alarm system implemented in Alcatraz and some United States prisons.

Voices Flag / Bandera de voces, 2017 is part of Galindo’s experimental music scores printed or sewn onto discarded flags he received from Water Stations, a humanitarian organization based in California that provides water to individuals crossing the Southern California-Mexico border. The flags, once used to help migrants locate these stations, have become containers for Galindo’s musical notation makings—micro-gestures that have been materialized into rhythms and sonic vibrations.

Experimental composer, sonic architect, and artist Guillermo Galindo creates objects made of discarded materials and personal items in the desert along the United States–Mexico border. His acoustic work includes two commissioned orchestral compositions by the OFUNAM (Mexico University Orchestra) and the Oakland Symphony Orchestra and Choir, solo instrumental works, two operas, sonic sculptures, visual arts, computer interaction works, electro-acoustic music, film, instrument building, three-dimensional immersive installations and live improvisation.
Galindo’s graphic scores and three-dimensional sculptural cyber-totemic sonic objects have been shown at major museums and art biennials in America, Europe and Asia including (amongst others) documenta14 (2017), Pacific Standard Time (2017) and it is now part of the permanent collections of The Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas, The Cornell Fine Arts Museum in Florida, LACMA in Los Angeles, California and The National Gallery in Washington DC.