"Tercera generació" (Third Generation) is a meditation on the fragility of sonic memory - not just the familiar physical kind, marked by degrading tapes and obsolete file formats, but a subtler, contextual fragility: the way sounds can outlive their meaning, drifting forward in time as orphaned objects stripped of their original context, intention, and authorship. The piece emerged from an intensive process of archival searching through thousands of files on Freesound, arriving at a striking discovery: a remix of a remix of a now-vanished original sound. Working from this already third-generation fragment, Subespai layers and transforms it further - joining an unbroken chain of reinterpretations, each one erasing a little more of what came before. The piece carries a clear argument: the preservation of our collective sonic heritage cannot rest on individual effort alone, but demands coordinated, long-term public commitment.

This composition uses the following sounds:

• https://freesound.org/s/680148/
• https://freesound.org/s/191922/
• https://freesound.org/s/643556/
• https://freesound.org/s/216858/
• https://freesound.org/s/259252/
• https://freesound.org/s/24088/
• https://freesound.org/s/324404/
• https://freesound.org/s/812145/
• https://freesound.org/s/812146/
• https://freesound.org/s/812147/
• https://freesound.org/s/812148/
• https://freesound.org/s/812149/
• https://freesound.org/s/44816/
• https://freesound.org/s/56575/
• https://freesound.org/s/812144/
• https://freesound.org/s/812150/
• https://freesound.org/s/812151/
• https://freesound.org/s/812152/
• https://freesound.org/s/178394/

Artist bio

Subespai is the solo project of Mauri Edo, a sound artist based in Menorca. Working under the guiding principles of found sound, repetition, and volume, Subespai constructs minimalist soundscapes that probe complex questions about existence, memory, and the self. Freesound has been a key resource throughout this practice, an accessible and inexhaustible archive of sonic material and community. Starting from textured ambient works, the project has gradually moved toward a more confrontational aesthetic rooted in live shortwave radio exploration, noise, and drone, using interference, decay, and the unpredictability of the broadcast spectrum as compositional material. Subespai has performed across Europe and continues to present work in concert and installation contexts. More at https://subespai.net.