What is Chasing Love?

Chasing Love  started as a meticulous look at the arrival and evolution of the idea of Romantic Love in Western society. But since the very beginning, I felt very attracted by the vague connection that Octavio Paz establishes between capitalism and Romantic Love.Traveling through psychology, anthropology, biology, linguistics, history and philosophy the content of this project changed over the time, grew and shrank until one day, I made the last connection, the one I needed to put together the more than 80 hours of interviews collected with experts and ordinary wonderful people.Many writings have established the connection between capitalism and love, or between late capitalism and emotions.How about late capitalism and Romantic Love? Chasing Love is a one-hour radio documentary that explores the ways late capitalism has affected and is affecting the idea of Romantic Love and consequently, the way relationships are handled and viewed in American society. The process of creating a piece like this happened both in the paper, and in the waves. Waves that became more and more independent, away from the mainstream ways of making radio. In these three years I explored the field of computer music (going back to my musical background), video art, radio drama and try to mix them all together.  The results are in Chasing Love. Chasing Love proposes a way of conceiving a piece as a whole, where music is composed as the bits of interviews are blended together, where secrets are told behind words of narration. Where the producer is nowhere to be found and present in every second of it.