The listening posts of Technical Breakdown install sound art in the city, and mix it with everyday soundscapes. In the listening post City on the Net, the exhibition moves on to other cultures, other cities and countries. The cities are brought into private homes. The most comprehensive studies and far-reaching sound art projects are presented in City on the Net. All of them with long playing times and all of them exploring the social as a main theme. The unwanted, accidental, intrusive and violent sounds – the noises of the densely populated city became an art object in itself as early as 1913, with Luigi Russolo’s futuristic manifest L’arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise). Since then, the effort to integrate real life sounds into sound art has developed in many different directions. The common denominator for this listening post is the collage form, the zapping and the cacophonic.
Japanese designer loud speakers make up Superstereo’s Transitrum, Osaka. The work is made on the basis of sound recordings from monorail stations, streets and squares in the city Osaka. The sense of disorientation and alienation shines through, not only because the language is unintelligible but also because the overlaps between sound impressions make the communication indecipherable. The information is reduced to a musical expression.
Superstereo is a sound design company started by Jacob Kreutzfeldt. Kreutzfeldt is Danish and was born in 1973. In his work, he takes a theoretical approach toward sound, holding an MA in Modern Culture and working with radio and sound design. At present, Kreutzfeldt conducts research in soundscapes in Japan.