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The main question I raise with my work „Transit: Underground U8“ is: „How does the underground sound?“ and how does this sound relate or reflect on it.

The subway also described as the underground in everyday life is a zone of transience. It’s a place of being in-between. Different things come together in the Berlin Underground and therefore mirror the fabric of society. That’s what fascinates me.

I think you can depict and capture a space only when you are on site. So the whole production of „Transit: Underground U8“ happens along the subway line U8, on the train, in the hallways and everywhere in between.

Feeling the surfaces of the U-Bahn and the Train Stations with contact mics, translating all the detailed everyday sounds, reorganizing them in a new context and using the reverb of the stations inspired me every time I went down the stairs of the stations.

Feeling my back and butt hurt after sitting on the train for two hours straight recording and resampling a train ride on the other hand, is not what I except it to be.

The Eight tracks reflect on the research and the investigation I went through during that time. It took me around three weeks to finish this project and I could not be happier with the result. 

released December 21, 2022

mastered by Erik Rieger

Transit: Underground U8 - Frank Furto (snippets)

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In my work series "Transit", I investigate in-between spaces and their acoustic territories. These are places to which we regularly expose ourselves and which permeate our society in a formative way. Those places are often found at the edges of social space and connect incompatible human states and depict them. They are characterized above all by their specific acoustic properties, which I will explore more deeply in my series of works. In their nature, they allow conclusions to be drawn about the norms and values of the society that produces them and to which they directly relate. Together they internalize qualities of change, compensation and reflection.

For the artistic project in the context of the Experimance Festival, I put the city of Saarbrücken as (a kind of) in-between space and concrete acoustic territory, in the focus of my work. Saarbrücken is the "center on the borders" and thus a kind of in-between space, with an inherent specific quality. Commuters go to work here, people from the region shop here, and various political or media institutions have their headquarters here. Border regions, like Saarbrücken, often have their own challenges in terms of increased crime, unemployment or drug trafficking. Also in relation to my own experience living there for seven years, I formulate the central questions of the work: What makes the capital of Saarland an in-between space? How do people relate to it? What significance and role does the acoustic nature of the surroundings play in this context?

To answer this questions, I was investigating in the course of a two weeks stay the acoustic nature of the place by going into the archive, visiting different places, conducting interviews, and making sound recordings and field recordings. This would help me to conclude the (acousmatic) experiences that people have in Saarbrücken. The resulting material would then be interpreted, deconstructed and modified or extended. The result of this process is an - entire sound artwork - that captures the acoustic materiality of Saarbrücken, which is both meaning-bearing and meaning-constructing and thus maps the complex network of relationships between people and the city in a new way. 

As the result of this, "Transit: Saarbrücken“ as an oversized-sounding sound object was reproduced in a performance. The investigations of the two-week project trip within the framework of the Experimance Festival were thus presented to the audience in a 30-minute performance. You can listen to the work on here on SoundCloud. Let me know what you think.

released July 19, 2023

Transit: Saarbrücken - Frank Furto @ Experimance Festival / 15.07.2023 / Sektor Heimat Theater

A memento

Nietzsche and Camus cracking jokes about crisis.
I don’t wanna speak.
I’m rather listening.
Let’s go back to that place of contemplation and introspection where the interplay between chaos and order, disruption and resolution appears.
Should it hurt?
Yes, love hurts.
In this dance of contradictions, we find our peace, our liberation, our truth - Chat GPT replies.
I’ll take that.
Seems like you‘re not wrong after all.
Still, I’m sorry.

- Frank Furto

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"A memento" is a track by Frank Furto.

It was released on April 2nd 2024.

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Ⓟ & © 2024 Frank Furto

Visualwork made by Frank Furto in cooperation with Jenn Rudelove

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A Memento - Frank Furto

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