Sounding South, call for sound artists
In early 2023, Soundtrackcity issued a call for sound artists to create a sound art work for Urban Sound Lab Archive about, inspired by, or situated in Amsterdam South. The results will be presented at Zone2Source in Amstelpark in autumn 2023.
Urban Sound Lab archive
For Urban Sound Lab, we developed a digital sound archive to which anyone can contribute by uploading their own sound recordings. Users of the archive can describe the meaning of their contribution and what they feel when listening to it. The Urban Sound Lab archive is a living archive that is constantly being expanded. Our aim is to encourage people to connect and interact with their immediate environment and to generate greater awareness of the importance of the city’s aural qualities. The Urban Sound Lab Archive also functions as a digital meeting place where people can share their aural experiences with other Amsterdam residents.
Multivocal collection
Over the past few years, many residents from Zuid have helped build the archive, mapping and sharing their auditory experiences. The result is a growing multi-voiced and diverse collection. View the map and listen to what people have uploaded: https://archive.urbansoundlab.nl
Call Sounding South
We have now opened up the digital archive to personal artistic projects. With the call Sounding South (now closed), we invited sound artists to make an artistic contribution to the archive. The work can be a performance, a site-specific work, a sound recording or a hybrid. As long as the result is audible, has a direct relationship with public space in (neighbourhoods in) Amsterdam Zuid and can be uploaded to the archive.
The results will be presented at Zone2Source in Amstelpark in autumn 2023.
Zone2Source
Zone2Source is a presentation space for art, nature & technology. Zone2Source uses the Amstelpark as a living lab. It offers artists, designers and scientists a platform for artistic cross-disciplinary experimentation and in-depth (ArtScience) research into the interaction between art, the park and the public.
