Sounds Now Labs bring together experienced curators with participants who are local music or sound artists from outside the new music world.
Sound can be words, language, thoughts and feelings. But sound is also more than just that:
Whistling gusts of wind, lullabies, the whetted appetite when we hear the popping of fried pakora. Sound is also frustrations and handed-down tall tales.
Sound can fill us with both comfort and unease. Most of all, the power of sound lies in the stories it tells, whispers and screams to us!
The sound of memories is the sound of home is a soundwalk experience located in Holmlia during Ultima 2024. By scanning QR-codes, you open up a map with a route that leads you through the soundwalk created by teenagers from Southern Nordstrand. The stops you visit along the way have been carefully selected by each of the young artists. Each stop represents personal recollections, soundscapes, memories, yearnings, dreams and relationships.
The soundwalk is the result of a workshop arranged by this year’s Curating Lab. During the workshops the young artists receive tools and guidance by established artists to create a soundwalk about Holmlia. The artists holding the workshops are Hanan Benammar, Åse Ava Fredheim, and Mattias Cantzler. You can take the soundwalk throughout the festival period.
On 7 September, HDOD is holding a workshop on making wind chines. The public is also invited to Holmlia on 14 September for a guided soundwalk, as well as a live radio show with SASUSU Radio and the teenagers who have been involved in this project.
This year’s Curating Lab consists of Danee Feng (event producer and designer), Amika Elfendi (writer, translator and DJ), Victor Vogel (musician), Anna Näumann (multidisciplinary artist, writer and curator) and Martijn Joling (dancer).
Interested in Curating Labs? Check out Ultima’s 2023 Curating Lab, or Wilde Westen’s Curating Lab from early 2024