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HEYR - HEAR - HERE - HOYR
- listen here, immersed in sound, listening as resistance
What happens when you’re not listening to - but inside the sound, at places where headlines happen?
Eyes point forward during daytime - our ears are 360° 24/7, while sleeping as well. HEYR is listening whole body, you can’t back out.
HEYR Soundscapes is “Slow Sound” - direct and raw, minimally edited, recorded up close: on the pavement where Floyd was strangled, against the wall of Pumpehuset on Utøya, immediately in front of the apartheid wall in Jerusalem, on the floor in Gazkammer-I, inside a group of young Talibs in Kabul. More about technicals
This is not sound that tells about a place - it is the place - you’re present yourself, placing your ears where the camera and words stop. Opposing fake-news, propaganda, filter bubbles, orientalism, oversimplifiying narratives. Four evenings in September, audiences can step into immersive 3D sound at 39 places where history is progressing: George Floyd Square, Utøya, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Auschwitz, Kabul, …
The Soundscapes will also be used as context for several concerts with top musicians from Norway, and guests Husam Howari and Malak Bannoura from Palestine, animator Mohsen Hossaini (Iran, Afghanistan), and Soundscape DJ Stuart Fowkes from the Cities and Memory project.
A warm welcome to Nordic Black Theatre 2-5 September!
Anders Vinjar