Sound//Actions

day one: scales/bodies/heights 

The Sound of Narrow Spaces

this exercise would engage with a marked environment (a square, some streets) preferably different scales of congestion. People would be ask to bring their bodies into different relations to the material bodies (architectural configuration) to activate different scales of acoustics. Narrow spaces are just one of various constellations one can think of, to situate our aural apparatus into a position to activate the acoustic variances and qualities of a space. Such an exercise ideally motivates the body to take unusual postures and gestures and opens up multiple registers of audio-experiences. 

day two: bridges/borders/fences

Tracking of Sonorities

Participants are asked to crystallize a repetitive sonic event in their environment and trace it as far as they can. First step would be to trace it to its source if possible. In the second step they will dwell with the sound in their bodies and distance themselves from the sound until they loose track of it. This practice plays with the different sonic enclosures and openings that happen through architectural configurations and demarcates how an ephemeral medium such as sound can create territories and/or becomes deterritorialized through the dividing forces of bridges/borders/fences. 

day three: silences/waits/invisibilities

Placing Displaced Sounds

The last day will play with the active alternation of a sonic ambience by the participants. Depending on the number of people in the workshop I will hand out little digital voice-recorders and ask the participants to record a particular sonic event that happens in a recognizable environment and place the recorder replaying the sound in a hidden spot that demonstrates a displacement of the sound. The invisibility of the replayed sound but the perceivable displacement of its content might create waits and plays on the assumptions of what is visible and invisible.