Jacek Smolicki

Inaudible Cities #3: Soundwalking through the Infra-ordinary

Soundwalk

Inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Inaudible Cities explores suburban areas through a series of spontaneously generated soundscapes that highlight often overlooked sonorities of urban environments.

Inaudible Cities #3 invites participants to a hybrid walk where normally inaudible flows and movements of earth, air, fire and water within urban infrastructure open gateways to temporally and geographically distant sonic environments and memories.

The project represents the third iteration in a series of soundwalking initiatives exploring urban peripheries, shifting attention from the visual to the sonic and from the extraordinary to the infra-ordinary.

Inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Inaudible Cities explores suburban areas through a series of spontaneously generated soundscapes that highlight often overlooked sonorities of urban environments.

Inaudible Cities #3 invites participants to a hybrid walk where normally inaudible flows and movements of earth, air, fire and water within urban infrastructure open gateways to temporally and geographically distant sonic environments and memories.

The project represents the third iteration in a series of soundwalking initiatives exploring urban peripheries, shifting attention from the visual to the sonic and from the extraordinary to the infra-ordinary.

Jacek Smolicki

An interdisciplinary artist, researcher, designer and educator. His work explores temporal, existential and technological dimensions of listening, recording and archiving practices in human and more-than-human realms. His practice manifests through soundwalks, soundscape compositions, experimental archives, installations and writing. He holds a PhD from Malmö University and has been a postdoctoral researcher at Linköping University and Simon Fraser University, as well as a Fulbright visiting scholar at Harvard. He co-founded the Walking Festival of Sound.

Artist: Jacek Smolicki
Photo: Matej Tomažin

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