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David Somló @4+4 Days Festival

13 oct. > 15 oct.

Prague, Czech Republic

with 'Slow Steps Have Ears'

A series of intertwined compositions comprised of locally recorded sounds, snippets of conversations, domestic sounds, and minimalist musical elements flow from hidden speakers. By blending with its surroundings, the piece transforms the site into a unique dreamlike soundscape that invites the audience to an experience somewhere between a sonic meditation and a treasure hunt of sounds. The listeners can reshape the brand-new soundscape as they move through the space, as each location offers a unique combination of varied lengths, noise, and silence in each snippet. The composition repeats hourly. Since each speaker plays a different part that changes over time, we encourage listeners to move as often as they wish. 

“Once you start experiencing the world with the sense that the world is actually speaking, every sound of the world is telling you a history, a feeling, and a cosmic atmosphere that is, in fact, both a repository of an echo that has not ended, a sound that is continuous and a resonance that belongs to a particular occasion, a particular time, a particular place, and the lives in this place are still resonating. You’re actually piercing time through sound. You’re reaching across the horizon of time, through sound, through that which continues to speak and echo. But you have to be able to listen.” Peter Sellars