Phonexoscope – Soundscape Journeys (HU)

Extended ear, altered spatial experience, increased focus on the present. For the 10th edition of pulzArt, we invite you to a meditative sound experience, to listen to the heartbeat of the city through headphones and microphones.

If we talk all the time, we don’t hear what others are saying. According to a meditation technique, we can shut our inner mouth only when we start to listen to the sounds around us. Sounds carry information, but in this exercise, that’s what we need to ignore. Letting sounds be just sounds, meaningless murmurs, noises, and listening to them as if they were music.

The Fonexoscope performance is a guided journey through the soundscape, where the auditory focus is as much on the sounds around us as on our position in them. Listening blurs the boundaries between the self and the environment, and thanks to the mixing of frequencies in real time, participants are opened to a new perception. The shared sound experience aims to develop acoustic awareness, to define ourselves and the effects around us in the sound space, to slow down and immerse ourselves in the sonic layers of our environment.

Concept by: Gyöngyi Barta, Réka Farkas-Kovách, Bori Sinkó, Bálint Tóth (Meetlab)

Producer: Fanni Nánay

Date:

12th of October 2024, Saturday, 15:00-17:00

13th of October 2024, Sunday, 12:00-15:00

Duration: 15 minutes (the sound installation can be joined every 15 minutes)

Location: Elisabeth Park (in case of bad weather, at the stone stage on the main square)

Participation is free of charge and no pre-registration is required.