Sound walk at the TO)pot Festival: 26 and 28 September 2024, at 17:30
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The Memodrom sound walk is a composte of memories of the most beautiful city in the world. It unexpectedly guides you through a spiral of memory in which the city by the river becomes a labyrinth, and sound triggers situations that surface from oblivion. Memodrom creates a parallel experience of the city in which public infrastructure does not serve as a functional space. It merely exists as a backdrop for the actions within the sound space. Instead of an immersive experience, we create an emersive experience. Memodrom idolises your right to forget. In less than an hour, it exposes you to the sonic memories of generations who have experienced Ljubljana through older sound carriers. Using a “file” reproduction method, we will collectively revive these memories – from evergreen music hits to public figures overlooked by history and to the city’s supposedly most invasive inhabitants. Would you like to set aside one of your memories, too? Memodrom awaits your call.
Photo by Matej Tomažin, CONA Archive. / Premiere: 1 and 2 September 2024, at 18:30
Concept: Augenmas
Screenwrite and direction: Augenmas and beepblip
Composition, recording and cover design: beepblip
Studio recording: Brane Zorman
Dramaturgy: Jasmina Založnik
Proofreading: Primož Jesenko
Voice interpretation: Lina Akif and Blaž Šef
Producer and advisor: Irena Pivka
Music by: Avgusta Danilova, Moj mili kraj (1918); Jani Golob, Moja dežela (1986); Brane Zorman, Don’t Take Our Freedom To Us! (2020) and for the purpose of satire, adaptations of Majda Sepe’s Šuštarski most (1969), Magnifico, Ko enkrat bom umrl (1995) and Mešani Pevski Zbor Don Bosko Celje, Slovenska zemlja, Jakob Aljaž (2017). We also used sound samples from Freesound.org by the following creators under various CC licences: joedeshon, bruno.auzet, Harris85, soundslikewillem, tjandrasounds, cabled_mess, OGsoundFX, Nox_Sound, CyrileneRossouw, Robinhood76, hugobeaumont, Bertrof, thgurdy, 13FPanská_Tolar_David, PierrotDu25, Osiruswaltz.
Commissioned by Cona Institute for TO)pot Festival
Supported by The Ministry of Culture, Republic of Slovenia and Ljubljana City Municipality, Department for Culture
Augenmas [Dare Pejić] is a non-professional author, writer and producer. His first original work, “Action+drama” radio play, was selected as the best radio play at Radio Študent. With occasional forays into sound experiments (as a member of the Theremidi Orchestra) and a short career as a music selector, he has remained faithful to the medium of text in various genres. His interest for sound walks stems from media archeology.
beepblip [Ida Hiršenfelder] is a sound artist and archivist. She makes immersive bleepy psychogeographical soundscapes with analogue electronics, DIY and modular synths, field recordings and computer manipulations. She is interested in bioacoustics, experimental music and sound spatialisation. She was a member of the Theremidi Orchestra (2011–2015) and is currently a member of the Jata C group for bioacoustics and sound ecologies (2018–). She completed her Master of Sonology studies at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague (2023). From 2021 she has been developing three series: “Empathic Atmospheres” ambisonic and multichannel compositions, sound installations of inaudible sounds and “Translating Critters” sound walks.
