Contour 556 event

Time – Place – Sound
What is the relationship between sound and us? Sounds themselves are ethereal and fleeting, they are part of the ‘backdrop’ on which more concrete information is superimposed, and are rarely registered as information in their own right. Environmental sounds, both natural and manmade, change over time. What sounds are heard at any given time, in any given place, are different, forming an integral part of our experience of time and place. However, sounds, like smells, have a very direct relationship with our emotional centres of memory linking sounds to personal experience and feelings. The Beijing Sound Museum is a new institution inviting Beijing’s public to engage with contemporary reality through a different perspective, and to discover interesting sounds that exist unnoticed all around us. For me, this also creates a resource from which I can take inspiration for my own work, including the film Warmth presented as part of Contour 556.

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