Passing Through

The Project

Passing Through is an interactive audio installation that explores the themes of presence and participation within the context of the city’s soundscape.

By simply existing, we continuously modify and contribute to the soundscape that flourishes and develops around us. When we are in social settings, we often become aware of these contributions and adjust how we behave, talk and move to sonically coexist with others. This attention often is not extended to the moments in our lives where we do not consider our contributions to the soundscape as “meaningful”. When we transit from one space to another, or when we sit in silence on a park bench. The mere act of listening itself already changes the soundscape around us and makes us participate in the lives of others through our sense of hearing. This installation aims to frame listening as a participatory process in which attendees can control the soundscape around them through the simple act of listening.

The installation took place at Liebig 12 on the 7th and 8th of May 2022