You have the right to remain silent is an interactive sound installation in which the aesthetics of espionage and surveillance are taken to the extreme. Rodin's Gate of Hell meets the seven trumpets of the apocalypse under

the aegis of the power organs of a paranoid Big Brother. From a metal cage resembling a medieval torture instrument hang 55 public address horn speakers. Like a defensive and non-lethal sound weapon, the sound guns form a sphere folded in on itself, projecting sound in all directions to construct a complex psycho-acoustic space. Radar and video surveillance systems detect presence and calculate the distance to individuals and their movements. Facial detection and movement tracking are used by the system to assess the intensity of its response to any intrusion.

The piece constructs a paranoid system that compares the military sound techniques and devices of 20th century societies of control with the systems of manipulation and influence of our present: video streams from social networks such as YouTube, Instagram and TikTok are fed constantly into the system, where they are transformed by an artificial intelligence called Rave.

Trained on recordings of propaganda and nationalist anthems, as well as on datasets of explosions, gunfire and screams, and on the functional music developed by the MUZAK company and the remixes and top hits that accompany the entire video stream on social networks, artificial intelligence reconstructs sounds and broadcasts them like a pan-acoustic hydra. A GPT chatbot listens, then transcribes the conversations into text before responding to the exchanges in a synthesised voice called Spectre. This concatenation of authoritarian and even fascistic aesthetics questions our attraction to and fantasies about brutal forms and the aesthetics of death. Like the black eagle that lingers on from totalitarian regimes, we are witnessing the advent of a world without meaning, where sometimes history repeats itself and at others it does not.