I tune my ears in the morning
A sonic installation
Guadalupe Maravilla
14 August 2026
06:00 PM
BGSW/Baszta
To tune an instrument is to adjust it until it aligns with a desired pitch. “I tune my ears in the morning” borrows this exercise of music as its title and point of departure. Each morning, Guadalupe Maravilla wakes to a ritual of sound and meditation, attuning body, mind, and spirit before the day’s demands arrive. Part of The Eye of the Ear, the sonic installation offers a dedicated space to recalibrate against the noise and impact of daily hardships.
The work draws on Maravilla’s personal story, fleeing from the Salvadoran Civil War into the U.S. as an undocumented child, and coming to understand a cancer diagnosed decades later as connected to that trauma. In treatment, he moved between Western oncology and sonic healing traditions from Indigenous communities of Asia and the Americas, promising himself that if he healed, he would dedicate his practice to healing others through sound. He now works as a sound healer and interdisciplinary artist, treating the body as a resonant instrument, working upon it with sound’s vibration to release trauma.
This practice fills the top floor of the Witches’ Tower, with a recording from the vinyl “Sound as Medicine”, ceremonies held at the Brooklyn Museum with fellow sound healers. Also featured is Tripa Chuca, a Salvadoran children’s game recast as a map of migration and memory, played by two members of Słupsk’s Salvadoran community. Herbs for “Our Lady of the Herbs”, gathered by Słupsk’s Rural Women’s Association, mark the day previously known as the Feast of Sleep, Death and Rest, when blessed plants were believed to heal. Instructions by Maravilla will guide the “before and after” listening, inviting visitors to allow the sonic ritual to carry them back into the body.
Curators of The Eye of the Ear: Agnieszka Kilian & Nayaa Krugman
Visual identity: Jan Brož
The OKO UCHA program is co-funded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage with support from the Culture Promotion Fund.
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