16/11/2024
sound installation
Fakescapes for getting lost in museum
Justyna Stasiowska
- Our everyday experience of sound and listening does not happen in concert halls, but in city space. When we go to work, flâneur around a shopping mall, or walk in a park next to a busy road, we are flooded with sounds commonly called “noise.” Sometimes, from the excess of urban stimuli, we escape to the countryside to rest among the natural sounds of nature. Justyna Stasiowska is interested in whether we are actually able to recognize the difference between natural and artificially generated sound. The artist therefore examines how hearing participates in the everyday experience of the natural environment and the city space. In her creative practice, she is interested in phenomena such as “fakescapes” and lo-fi music. The former involves falsifying the soundscapes that surround us while the latter concerns the process of recording sounds in such a way that they are less processed and “cleaner.
- The sound performance at U–jazdowski will consist of a session of active listening to sounds, distributed over four loudspeakers, and a lecture, in which the artist will focus on how culture has falsified our memory and imagination of the soundscape; she will talk about the history of sound design, about Muzak (functional music used, for example, in public spaces), and about relaxation music. The purpose is to encourage us to turn from being passive listeners flooded with city noise into active participants with a bearing on the perceived soundscape.
- Justyna Stasiowska
- is a composer, sound artist, sound designer, author of articles published in scholarly and musical journals, e.g. Glissando, Didaskalia, and Audiosfera. Koncepcje−Badania−Praktyki.
