SOUND MAPPING -A Sonic tour through the new KUA
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In our project we seem to have been travelling between the preservative and explorative. Working with field recordings, recording on what equipment was available – mp3 players, dictaphones and mini-disc players - we’ve tried to enhance our own awareness of the sounds that are generated in the recently constructed university complex in Amager. We’ve recorded our walks through halls and down stairs, ourselves smoking, eating, breathing; the noise of coffee machines, elevators, plates, doors and toilets flushing. The sounds haven’t been chosen solely for being exclusive to the buildings as you may probably find them in office-like constructions everywhere. But they still conjure memories from specific days in the minds of the people who were recording. We’re thus preserving these personal memories as well as the collective working and exploration process.
In our recordings and in the edited result of them - an audio-guide through the buildings - we are working within the tradition of Sound-Art and ambient music - not only registering sounds. To some extent we’re also manipulating them, playing sounds from one part of the building in other spaces, searching for ways to let the sound interact with the space we play it in. This was only partially planned beforehand, as our walks through the buildings brought to our attention not only the sounds of the spaces, but the construction, materiality, temperatures and decoration of the new KUA buildings. Explorations that have only increased our curiosity about the significance of how the spaces of KUA are constructed, used, perceived and ignored; a curiosity that we of course hope to pass on to the people who decide to take this walk with us.
Even if the documentation - our perception of sound and ideas of KUA - in some ways might be time-specific, we are planning to let the recordings be available for a longer period of time online. Thus leaving anyone interested the chance for taking the tour, just by downloading a file and playing it on an portable player.
- Agnieszka Streminska, Anna Oksanen, Florian Hollunder, Lars Brund Jensen, Paw Grabowski, Urszula Wozniak, Verena Leitner, Veronika Eberhart, and Mattia Velati
