"The sound experience which I prefer to all others, is the experience of silence. And this silence, almost anywhere in the world today, is traffic. If you listen to Beethoven, it's always the same, but if you listen to traffic, it's always different". (John Cage)

Urbanisation and mechanisation have not only changed the world visually, but also aurally. Sounds from the urban jungle shaped by humans, but also the human influence on natural ecosystems are acoustically "visualised" in the exhibition "Daily sounds all around". As John Cage named and defined the impossibility of absolute silence - "Traffic is silence" - sound is an omnipresent phenomenon. In everyday life, sounds unconsciously provide information about local and geographical conditions, cultural or everyday habits and social relationships. Detached from their original contexts, they become representatives of site-specific phenomena and the most diverse lifeworlds in the exhibition space. The auditory, sensual experience of noises, sounds and noise penetrate the body invisibly and often unconsciously. And yet they shape our perception and "view" of the world in almost every everyday situation.
Bringing in external, acoustic everyday sounds immediately creates a whole continuum of inner images of the respective life world. Despite an often immaterial level, the artistically staged works allow a narrative access to current phenomena of our world. The sounds and noises of a world changed by man and technology, as well as the consequences of man's acoustic footprints in natural ecosystems, are presented in the urban Weltkunstzimmer spaces of a former baking factory. The participating artists track down sounds, combine them and transfer them to the artistic context in a variety of ways. In this way, "Daily sounds" become audio(visual) representatives of places, social and natural conditions of the most diverse living environments - from the depths of the ocean to Siberian ice landscapes to urban city spaces.

The catalogue for the exhibition "Daily Sounds All Around. Spuren akustischer Lebenswelten" is available from Wolke Verlag or directly from us.

76 pages (inside). 18 cm x 25,5 cm. 

Div. illustrations, coloured. ISBN 978-3-95593-052-3. Price: 10 Euro. 

www.wolke-verlag.de

or directly via the foundation: 

info(at)weltkunstzimmer.de

Sponsored by the Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf.