A walk through the urban landscape with headphones and a set soundtrack becomes a journey through the sounds of Bat-Yam, creating a new acquaintance with the landscape and a sensory experience.

I made this sound-walk, for the Bat-Yam International Street-Theatre Festival, which took place in Bat Yam's industrial district, and focused on the theme of ‘Sounds and Rhythms of the City’. Each participant in the sound-walk was given an MP3 player with headphones and walked a circular route while listening to a pre-recorded soundtrack, for the duration of the sound work (about 20 minutes). The soundtrack contained a number of layers mixed together:

• A descriptive layer, in which directions were given for walking along the route. A collage of field recordings made in the surrounding area over a period of two months: human voices, including dialogue, noises, general soundscape.

• A poetic layer combined of my recorded voice, at times narrating, at times reflecting, and of recordings of local people reading extracts from a novel by famous Yiddish writer Sholem Asch, resident of Bat Yam.

• Extracts from a song and radio music. 

I tried as much as I could for the soundtrack to capture the environment I was working in, which was in constant flux and forced me to address the representation of change. 

Rasham Kol: A Sound Journey in Bat-Yam. September 2010.

excerpt of the premiere performance at
Les 26 Chaises, Paris, January 30th, 2017
Pierre-Antoine Badaroux - alto sax
Felicie Bazelaire - cello
Benjamin Duboc - double bass
Louis Laurain - trumpet
Hannes Lingens - snare drum

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grass

Recorded in Le Havre in January 2017. 
Extract from the LP "Abstract Musette" released in 2019 on Corvo Records

Joke Lanz, turntables
Jonas Kocher, accordion

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Hannes Lingens

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