My main inspiration came from listening to the garbage truck every morning since I came living at Escondido Village. It lead me to a series of reflections on the massive amount of garbage that I begin to produce since I moved in, a much higher amount than I was faced in Brazil. Also, I was never so massively exposed to “positive” advertisements as I am here. Work hard; Make a lot of money; Buy an infinite amount of stuff you don’t need; without perceiving that being a good consumer is the new being a good citizen; and then, trash everything and repeat the process indefinitely without questioning you why you are doing it.
This led me to search for specific kinds of sonorities: an advertisement about how great is to make “your own time” and be “your own slave”, a humor sketch that tries to reveal the absurdity of this reality; the sound of a bunch of coins; the reflections about this situation from the former president of Uruguay, Pepe Mujica, who thinks about “free time”, “freedom”, and not being a slave of money; and the sound of a garbage truck.
The piece goes from the advertisement, the bright side of capitalism, and, through the process of accumulation of the material (which is a very capitalist thing), tries to arouse a sense of overwhelming, alienation, or mechanical-like feeling, and then transforms everything into the garbage sound. The voice of Pepe Mujica then emerges, out of the garbage, modulating the mess.