Participants writing their own scores at the end of the soundwalk reflecting on the experience
Photography by Dimitris Alexakis | KET
How does the public space sound? Who has a right to the city? Can sound create and shape democratically accessible spaces and how? What happens when the body interacts with them?
The artistic project Cityphonic Walks by Irini Kalogeropoulou explores the voice of the city through a soundwalk that starts from Kypseli (KET), passes through Patissia and ends at KET for a short discussion. Through a score based method of walking, active listening and sound production, this participatory action invites people of all ages to discover the invisible and silent sides of the city. Everyday life becomes a canvas of observation and a field of action where one can listen to a house, a street, a city as one listens to a symphony or an opera.
Starting from text scores by Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, David Helbich or the artist herself, the participants reflect on the political and poetic dimension of sound, share listening experiences, play the city as an expanded instrument, and together imagine practices of care, resonance, solidarity and reappropriation of public space. Cityphonic Walks invites us to listen and expand the voice of the city, balancing between presence and absence, silence and noise, movement and stillness of bodies living and breathing together.
Participants while performing the score " Collective Listening"
Photography by Dimitris Alexakis | KET
