The project is dedicated to Ljubljana city soundscapes. It explores the ways citizens and visitors as well as municipal and state policies shape urban sound capacities. Project focuses on sounds as integral part of the everyday experience of living in the city, as well as on sounds that symbolize the sound heritage of the city: religious sounds, protest sounds, and street music.
In this regard, the project addresses wider issues:
– how the sounds of certain parts of the city change due to socio-political processes and economic interests;
– how the sounds of the city reveal contemporary societal issues of globalization, well-being, tourism, and the entertainment industry;
– how the people enter the public political space and act as active actors through active co-creation of urban soundscape;
– how the response to religious sounds reflects historical, political, and social conflicts, and how religious sounds become part of the political life of the city.
In October 2017 we organized a sound exibition at the ZRC Atrium (Ljubljana), where we presented various aspects of street, protest and religious sounds to the general public.