„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)

Urbanization and mechanization 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 “visualized” in the exhibition “Daily sounds all around”. Just as John Cage named and defined the impossibility of absolute silence - “Traffic is silence” - sound is an omnipresent phenomenon; there are no places without sound. In everyday life, they unconsciously provide information about local and geographical conditions, cultural or everyday habits and social relationships. Detached from their original contexts, soundscapes and voices become acoustic representatives of site-specific and social phenomena of our time through artistic staging.

The sensory-auditory experience of noises, sounds and noise permeate the body invisibly and unconsciously. And yet they shape our perception and “view” of the world in almost every everyday situation. The rhythmic, droning noise of the big city is examined in the exhibition, as are the voices of Siberian ice landscapes, jungle areas in Vietnam or random snippets of words and dialogues from a listening station. The participating artists track down sounds, combine them and transfer them into an artistic context in a wide variety of ways. Bringing in external everyday sounds creates a continuum of inner images and ideas of the respective lifeworld. Despite the often immaterial level, the works enable narrative access to a wide variety of lifeworlds. 

These 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 spaces of a former baking factory.