Outdoor listening sessions / an invitation for a walk, 2021.

With soundscapes by: Filippa Pettersson, François Pisapia, Gabriele Rendina Cattani, Iku, Kristin Reiman (Man Rei), and Nina Nadig

This year’s wayfaring edition of SOUNDBATHING is an invitation for a walk. As became even clearer through the recent waves of confinement and distancing, walking has healing, meditative qualities – wandering, wayfaring, is a form of attentiveness, connectivity, and resistance. A form of listening.

You are warmly invited to plug in your earphones, step outside of your door and allow yourselves to be swept away by (and with) these sonic scapes.

(00:00) "Andrea's Monogatari" A prelude by Gabriele Rendina Cattani – where am I? It's cockatrice's cave. She speaks the language of the seals. Fire critical hit! Cockatrice scowled at Andrea.

(02:40) "Choir of Solitudes" Kristin Reiman (Man Rei) builds up a collective choir by multiplying her own voice into an embracing multitude 

(06:55) "Obschon Manche Stille Suchen" Nina Nadig fuses together field recordings and squeaking bamboos to form a mysterious sonic grove 

(16:15) "Voicemail" Iku's leaving you a voice message amidst an ambient of a liminal, echo-filled space

(19:40) "Wastelandpark (Eisenhüttenstadt)” François Pisapia journeys into the East with field recordings from Eisenhuttenstadt, the socialist model city built in the 1950s on Germany’s border with Poland 

(27:50) "A Flight with Shira” Filippa Pettersson recorded Shira, a bird, taking flight, ending the walk by leaving the ground and soaring up up into the air

A curatorial project by Ben Livne Weitzman