14 artworks, to be enacted anywhere around the world at urban sites
⋉ A daily path |
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Encouragements
By Anna Raimondo
Artwork made in Brussels, Belgium
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Through a simple choice of words we can change the urban sound environment. 'Encouragements' invites you to gather words of support from self identifying women, and to share them with unknowing audiences in public spaces via a simulated phone call. By making public what is often a private conversation of gender and challenge we can infiltrate the urban environment with these personal and plural experiences, embodying a women’s reciprocal empowerment. Originally performed as an audio intervention by the artist, this work has been written as a score for your enactment.
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Location: Along a daily path or walk, when you are close to other people
Format: An audio intervention - solo Duration: For as long as you like You need: A mobile phone, and time to pre-prepare a script |
⋉ Source of water |
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Triple Point
Punto Triple
by Agnes Paz
Artwork made in Santiago, Chile
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We are 70% water. Our planet is 70% liquid water coexisting with water in a solid and gaseous state. But in our cities we often lose consciousness of and contact with water. Natural flows are piped, redirected and contaminated. But despite everything, water is essential and is always present, even in the driest places. 'Triple Point' invites you to reconnect, to feel and discover all these waters and their equilibrium point - the triple point where the solid, the liquid and the gaseous coexist. You are invited to bring these waters back to their channels.
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Starting point: At a source of water - a natural channel, fountain, waste pipe or even just on the feeling of your own saliva
Format: A soundwalk - solo Duration: 100 minutes You need: A mobile device and headphones |
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Somos 70% agua, nuestro planeta es 70% agua líquida coexistiendo con agua en estado sólido y gaseoso. En nuestras ciudades muchas veces perdemos la conciencia y el contacto con el agua. Los flujos naturales son entubados, re-dirigidos y contaminados. Pero a pesar de todo, estas aguas están siempre presentes, están incluso en los lugares más áridos siendo esenciales para nuestra existencia. La invitación es a re-conectar, a sentir y descubrir estas aguas y su punto de equilibrio. El punto triple - donde coexiste lo sólido, lo líquido y lo gaseoso. Te invito a traer estos flujos de vuelta a sus cauces.
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Punto de inicio: Un lugar con agua - puede ser un cauce natural, una pileta, una tubería de desagüe o incluso simplemente en la sensación de su propia saliva
Formato: Caminata sonora individual Duración: 100 minutos Qué necesitas: Audifonos y un aparato reproductor de sonido |
Comienzo
⋉ At a bench, lamp post and bus stop |
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Hidden Pieces: Citywide Gallery
Obras Escondidas: Cidade Galeria
by Vitório O. Azevedo
Artwork made in Porto Alegre, Brazil
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'Hidden Pieces' explores the relationships between a city’s occupants and its day-to-day objects, and how this relationship can be changed and reframed through a disrupting agent. The work presents three “audio tours”, each relating to a common object in the urban landscape: a bench, a bus stop and a lamp post. Through fictitious narratives the artist reveals these everyday items as artworks in a ‘Citywide Gallery’, each made in response to different social, political and philosophical concerns. These stories transform and give new meaning to each object, while prompting an unravelling of the rest of our urban, including the authoritative voices heard within it.
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Location: By a bench, lamp post and bus stop
Format: Audio guide - solo / group Duration: 4 works totaling 20 minutes You need: A mobile device with speaker |
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Obras Escondidas explora as relações construídas entre habitantes de uma cidade e seus objetos do dia-a-dia e como, através de um agente disruptivo, estas relações podem ser alteradas e reformuladas. O trabalho apresenta três “áudio guias”, cada um relativo a um objeto comum da paisagem urbana: um banco, uma parada de ônibus e um poste de luz. Através de uma narrativa ficcional o artista revela estes objetos do dia-a-dia na forma de obras de arte em uma “Cidade Galeria”; cada uma relacionada a diferentes preocupações sociais, políticas e filosóficas. As palavras dão novos significados e transformam cada um dos objetos, ao mesmo tempo provocando uma reformulação do resto do nosso urbano, das vozes autoritárias presentes neste.
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Local: Um banco, um poste de luz e uma parada de onibus
Formato: Áudio guia - solo/grupo Duração: 4 obras totalizando 20 minutos Você precisa de: Um celular com alto-falante |
Começar
⋉ In your community |
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Beyond the accident of time
by Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti
Artwork made for Hiroshima, Japan
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'Beyond the accident of time' honors Isamu Noguchi’s never fully-realized sculpture, 'Bell Tower for Hiroshima', 1950 (partially reconstructed 1986). The original instrument used for the first movement is Noguchi’s 'Bell Image' (1956–57). Noguchi imagined the bells for 'Bell Tower for Hiroshima' coming from all over the world. In this piece the artist interprets the sculpture not as a physical object that would be built in Hiroshima, but as a sonic concept that could be enacted in communities around the world. When performing the score we mark out a new 'bell', we listen and recreate this space for reflection, we honor and remember what the sculpture represents.
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Location: In your community - upon finding a metal or glass object with a complex and beautiful resonance. This could be a lamp post, a railing, the side of a building, a ceramic, or something else
Format: Sonic walk / performance - solo or group Duration: 5–60 minutes You need: A mobile device and a mallet - which could be a wooden stick, pencil or something else |
⋉ Unknown suburb |
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Inaudible Cities #2
by Jacek Smolicki
Artwork made in Stockholm, Sweden
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'Inaudible Cities #2' is an ongoing artistic research project exploring the soundscapes of urban fringes - to create a multi-modal expositions that articulate the diverse facets of the city life from the perspective of its peripheries. Techniques of attentive listening, sensory ethnography, heretic cartography, creative field recording, para-archiving and annotating techniques are employed. This instance of the project invites participants to engage in explorations of their own peripheral and marginal(ized) soundscapes. The suburbs give focus on the marginal, infra-ordinary sonic situations in which mundane elements of natural/cultural realms, infrastructures, and debris become leading actors and storytellers.
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Location: An unknown suburb
Format: A sound led short story - solo or group Duration: 30-120 minutes You need: Recording equipment (drawing / audio / video / photo) and something to write on |
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Inaudible Cities är en pågående konstnärlig undersökning av de perifera ljudlandskapen och består av en serie korta multimodala expositioner som artikulerar olika aspekter av stadslivet från ett perifert perspektiv. Projektet bygger på olika tekniker för uppmärksam lyssnande, sensorisk etnografi, kartografi, kreativ fält inspelning , para-arkivering och olika annotering tekniker. Med fokus på marginella, infra-vanliga soniska situationer där vardagliga komponenter av naturliga / kulturella områden, infrastrukturer och skräp blir ledande aktörer och berättare, denna utgåva av projektet inbjuder deltagare att delta i liknande utforskningar av perifera och marginella ljudlandskap där de bor.
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Plats: En okänd förort
Format: En ljud novelle - solo eller grupp Varaktighet: 30-120 minuter Du behöver: Inspelningsutrustning (ritning / ljud / video / foto) och något att skriva på |
⋉ In the historical centre |
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Two layers of cake
طبقتين من الكعك
by Yara Mekawei
يارا مكاوي
Artwork made in Cairo, Egypt
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Coptic Cairo is a neighborhood in Old Cairo that is made from many historical periods. It's a place where you can feel part of Egyptian social history by listening to its ambient sounds. It encompasses the Babylon Fortress, the Coptic Museum, the Hanging Church, the Greek Church of St. George, the Amr Ibn El-As Mosque and many other historical sites. This area was a stronghold for Christianity in Egypt both before and during the Islamic era, as most of its churches were built after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in the 7th century. The artist visits this area several times a year, recording the different layers of sound that express the atmosphere - the architecture, streets, visitors, vendors, coffee shops and religious buildings. The recordings have been made undercover while walking, using a hidden microphone and small equipment, as it’s forbidden to record without permissions which are difficult to obtain. The layers of sound captured include the clothing, body and accessories of the artist. The layers of the past are heard with the layers of the social sonic present. This work invites a site-specific listening in an equivocal historical centre of your urban - where the past is also audible.
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Location: In the historic centre - a location where you can hear the social history
Format: Site-specific listening - solo Duration: 9 minutes You need: A mobile device with headphones |
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القاهرة القبطية هو حي في القاهرة القديمة ، يحتوي علي العديد من علامات العصور التاريخية. إنه مكان يمكنك أن تشعر فيه بأنك جزء من التاريخ الاجتماعي المصري عندما تستمع إلى الأصوات المحيطة به. ويشمل حصن بابل والمتحف القبطي والكنيسة المعلقة وكنيسة القديس جورج اليونانية ومسجد عمرو بن العاص والعديد من المواقع التاريخية الأخرى. كانت هذه المنطقة معقلًا للمسيحية في مصر قبل وأثناء العصر الإسلامي ، حيث تم بناء معظم كنائسها بعد الفتح الإسلامي لمصر في القرن السابع. زارت الفنانه هذه المنطقة عدة مرات في السنة ، وسجلت طبقات الصوت المختلفة التي تعبر عن الأجواء - الهندسة المعمارية والشوارع والزوار والبائعين والمقاهي والمباني الدينية. تم إجراء التسجيلات بطريقه سرية باستخدام ميكروفون مخفي ومعدات صغيرة أثناء المشي ، حيث يُحظر التسجيل بدون أذونات يصعب الحصول عليها. تتضمن طبقات الصوت الملتقطة ملابس الفنانة وأصوات جسمها وملحقاتها. تسمع طبقات الماضي بطبقات الحاضر. يدعو هذا العمل إلى استماع خاص بالموقع في مركز تاريخي مرتكز في مدينتك - حيث يكون الماضي مسموعًا أيضًا.
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الموقع: في المركز التاريخي - موقع يمكنك فيه سماع التاريخ الاجتماعي
التنسيق: استماع خاص بالموقع - منفرد المدة: 9 دقائق تحتاج: جهاز محمول بسماعات |
بداية
⋉ Anywhere in the urban |
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Minha Raiz é Árvore do Futuro
My Root is the Tree of the Future
by Vagné
Artwork made in Cajazeiras, Salvador-Bahia, Brazil
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'Minha Raiz é Árvore do Futuro', is a track from the album 'Mapas Sonoros - Cajazeiras in LockDown?', which develops experimental concepts in music using Afro-indigenous traditions and the modernity of concrete music, elevating an Afro-futuristic thought and philosophy. Reusing scraps, discarding technologies, recording in the field and computational algorithms, codes for building instruments and children, Vagné intervenes in the environment expressing ancestry and Afrofuturism. This work shares the sonic relationships felt by the artist, of the environment and people, who live in urban spaces such as the Cajazeiras and slums during the COVID-19 isolation. This peripheral neighborhood is located in the city of Salvador – Bahia, and is mostly made up of Afro-descendants. The artist contrasts this present situation of isolation with sound events of crowds, rains, birds, horns, machine noise and silence. The healing processes of the universe.
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Location: Anywhere in the urban environment
Format: Site specific listening - for two people Duration: 5.38 minutes You need: A mobile device with headphones |
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Minha Raiz é Árvore do Futuro, faixa do novo álbum Mapas Sonoros - Cajazeiras in LockDown?, desenvolve conceitos experimentais na música, usando tradições afro-indígenas e a modernidade da música concreta, elevando um pensamento e filosofia afro-futurista. Reutilizando sucatas, descartes tecnológicos, gravação de campo, algoritmos computacionais, códigos para construção de instrumentos e timbres. O artista intervém no ambiente expressando ancestralidade e afrofuturismo. O trabalho compartilha também as relações sonoras sentidas pelo artista no meio ambiente e pelas pessoas que vivem em espaços urbanos e favelas, durante o isolamento da COVID-19. As gravações foram realizadas no bairro de Cajazeiras localizado na periferia da cidade de Salvador - Bahia, que é formado principalmente por afrodescendentes. O artista contrasta essa situação atual de isolamento com eventos sonoros de multidões, chuvas, pássaros, buzinas, ruído de máquina e silêncio. O processo de cura do universo está em progresso.
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Local: Em qualquer lugar do ambiente urbano
Formato: Escuta específica do site - para duas pessoas Duração: 5.38 minutos Você precisa: Dispositivo móvel com fones de ouvido |
Começar
⋉ An extractor fan |
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Breathing Machinery
by Colin Priest
Artwork made in London, UK
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Inside and out, air and its movement breathes life into spaces. During the COVID-19 lockdown attention was drawn to critical care air ventilators, instruments for human survival. While the quiet streets drew attention to the omnipresent sound of mechanical air extraction units on buildings, these motors ventilated vacant warehouse and workplaces - respirators for work life, pushing air into our dark spaces. Between necessary refrigeration, comfort and clean air, these ticking metal boxes are a symbol of our societal and environmental frailty, the embedded lungs within the urban fabric. This work invites a global audience to connect with this urban mechanical air, to contribute portrait photographs and onomatopoeic captions to an Instagram collection and publication designed by Work-Form.
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Location: At a mechanical extractor fan attached to a building in any urban location
Format: Onomatopoeic portraits - solo or group Duration: 5+ minutes You need: A mobile device with camera, and an instagram or email account |
⋉ In the financial district |
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oscillate//terrain
by Raheel Khan
Artwork made in Manchester, UK
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Designed for Manchester's financial district 'Spinningfields' during lockdown, this audio score acts as a prompt to create a social planning blueprint for a post COVID-19 city. Contributions are invited via voice note recordings made during site visits to financial districts around the world. This work challenges both the structure of the city and the possibilities within it, exposing sound as a catalyst for critical thought and imagination, using field recordings and a conceptual speculative process that tease out the embodiment of past, present and future. The post-lockdown society is one of transformation. The sounds of our cities are changing, but will how we use the space within them change too?
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Location: In the financial district
Format: Social planning blueprint - solo Duration: 7.30 minutes You need: Mobile device with headphones, a voice note app and email account |
⋉ In open spaces |
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(not quite) a catalogue of birds
by Cédric Maridet
Artwork made in Hong Kong
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'(not quite) a catalogue of birds' is a performative protocol to sound out and listen to dislocated bird songs - as a way to explore forms of common ground with the non-human inhabitants of the urban. This project takes root in the great tradition of imagining a universe without humans, where animals take over cities as they did during the aftermath of the catastrophe of Fukushima, or during more recent events like the COVID-19 lockdown. This work welcomes these forms of 'non-verbal' communication, inviting group vocalisations of various bird calls - not as attempt at interspecies communication, but an invitation to explore other forms of being, of being together and of habitation.
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Location: Open spaces - large public squares, streets of various widths, urban parks
Format: Group performance for 2+ Duration: Unlimited You need: A mobile device with speaker or headphones |
⋉ By an electric motor |
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RPM hums, choral, viral
by Julieanna Preston
Artwork made in Wellington, Aotearoa / New Zealand
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'RPM hums, viral, choral' is an online live performance directed by Julieanna Preston. It invites participants to listen and tune to electrical motors; to make their life force palpable. During this relational encounter participants absorb, sound, mimic and emulate the motor’s vibrations; to quiver, tremble, shudder, shiver and spasm as a complementary and counter-humming material body. The noise pollution produced by electric motors, an everyday irritant to urban life, is heightened by a deep hush emerging during various levels of pandemic isolation across the globe. Imagine the chorus of our collective effort wafting through latitudinal and longitudinal currents.
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Location: By an electric motor device, appliance or system in your city
Format: Online live performance, 16 Jul 2020 Duration: 15 minutes You need: A mobile device with camera, zoom meeting software downloaded, and internet access |
⋉ On public transport |
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Lay-By
by Catherine Clover
Artwork made in Melbourne, Australia
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Mixing graffiti and voice, both human and bird, with urban lettering - this score merges two journeys, tram and train, across the city of Melbourne in southeastern Australia. The score includes an Acknowledgement of Country that recognises the traditional owners of this part of Melbourne, the Wurundjeri people. This work offers a shared hearing, one that does not exclude or separate based on species or liveness, inner or outer voice. It enables a gentle undoing of the filters of hearing, that can be felt as we ride the train with the artists’ score.
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Location: On public transport (or in memory of it)
Format: A score for voice, silently or aloud - solo or group Duration: 5+ minutes You need: A mobile device |
⋉ Where there is echo |
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At the Guts of it
by Kate Brown
Artwork made in Sydney, Australia
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'At the Guts of it' is a relational sonic work for voice and echo. Using an instructional graphic score and video, the work prompts vocal responses to urban spaces that have reverberant acoustics - under bridges and inside tunnels. These architectural ‘non’ spaces where sound travels to, whirrs and dissolves, are gently made noisy again. The vocal instructions encourage reverberations of both the site and the body, hearing the human as engine and the body as an architecture - sounding out their togetherness and their distinct separateness throughout the performance. This work instructs a form of vocal communication that pushes at the boundaries of communication norms in urban space; an in-betweenness, reminding us of what else is possible.
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Location: Where there is echo - a bridge, tunnel, underpass, stairwell, underground carpark
Format: Instructional vocal performance score and video - solo Duration: 8.30 minutes You need: A mobile device with speaker or headphones |
⋉ While waiting |
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Locus
by Anna Lann
Made in airports in Moscow, Tel Aviv and the Faroe Islands
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'Locus (Latin for location)' is a series of digital synthesizer patches that self-generate new sonic landscapes indefinitely. Despite being made entirely of electrical signals, these patches create a sonic world that is very much alive, wild and deep, filled with wind, thunder, birds and water. These seemingly natural elements are driven from synthetic and life-less origins, and are consciously perceived as such. Each patch was made from scratch by the artist, while waiting on long layovers in international airports. Formed by these estranged spaces in which waiting is the only task - the artist built her own urban sonic present, in the moment. This work invites you to listen into this generated world, whenever you find yourself waiting.
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Location: While waiting, in a queue, at a station or in a standby space of any kind
Format: Site-specific listening - solo Duration: 19mins, 15mins and 16mins You need: A mobile device and hadphones |
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Locus (расположение в переводе с латыни) - это серия патчей цифрового синтезатора, которые самостоятельно генерируют новые звуковые ландшафты в течение неопределенного времени. Несмотря на то, что эти патчи сделаны исключительно из электрических сигналов, они создают очень живой, дикий и глубокий звуковой мир, наполненный ветром, громом, птицами и водой. Эти, казалось бы, природные элементы происходят из синтетического и безжизненного происхождения и сознательно воспринимаются как таковые. Каждый патч был создан с нуля художницей, во время длительных ожиданий и остановок в международных аэропортах. Сформированные из этих отчужденных пространств, в которых ожидание является единственной задачей - художница в настоящий момент создала свое собственное городское звуковое пространство. Эта работа приглашает вас прослушать этот сгенерированный мир, когда бы вы ни находились в ожидании.
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Где: во время ожидания, в очереди, на станции или в любом режиме ожидания
Формат: специфичное для сайта прослушивание - соло Продолжительность: 19 минут, 15 минут и 16 минут Вам нужны: наушники и мобильное устройство |
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לוקוס (מיקום מלטינית) היא סדרת פאצ'ים מודולריים אשר נוצרו בעזרת סינטיסייזרים דיגיטליים ומדמים נופים קוליים חדשים ואינסופיים. למרות היותם אותות חשמליים בלבד, פאצ'ים אלו יוצרים עולם קולי חי, פראי ועמוק המורכב מסערות, סופות רעמים, רוח, ציפורים ומים. אלמנטים טבעיים לכאורה אלה מונעים ממקור סינטטי וחסר-חיים, ונתפסים במודע ככאלה. כל פאץ׳ נוצר מאפס על ידי האמנית, בזמן המתנות ארוכות בשדות תעופה בינלאומיים. מונעת על ידי חללים מנוכרים אלו, אשר בהם המתנה היא המשימה היחידה, האמנית בנתה את ההווה האודיטורי העירוני שלה בזמן אמת. עבודה זו מזמינה אתכם להקשיב לעולם שנוצר, בכל פעם שתמצאו את עצמכם בהמתנה פאסיבית
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נקודת פתיחה: בזמן המתנה, בתור, בתחנה או במרחב מכל סוג
פורמט: האזנה תלויית אתר - סולו משך: 19 דקות, 15 דקות ו 16- דקות אביזרים: אוזניות, מכשיר נייד |
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