Dávid Somló - Slow steps have ears

We hear interlocking site-specific compositions made up of various recorded noises, overlapping conversations, home noises and minimalist musical elements. Sometimes blending in with its surroundings, sometimes breaking away from them, the piece transforms the park into a dreamlike soundscape and a shared listening experience for its guests.

The hourly repeating sound matrix of speakers placed at various points in the space covers different details of any chosen listening location and creates new soundscapes, so listeners are encouraged to walk around the park and spend time at as many different points as possible.

"As you begin to experience the world with the knowledge that it is speaking to you, each sound conveys a story and a sense of the world, which is both a resonance of sounds that have not yet ended and a continuous resonance that belongs to a particular occasion, a particular time, a particular place, resonating through the people who live here. You can actually stretch through time through sound. You can reach across the horizon of time, through the sound that continues to speak and echo here. You just have to know how to listen." Peter Sellars

Date: 11-24 May.

⊹ Concept, Composition by Dávid Somló

⊹ Installation: Balázs Kontur

⊹ Production manager: Fanni Nánay (Placcc Festival)

⊹ Special thanks to Gabriella Gál, students of the Polytechnic of Economics

Made for the Public art competition of the Municipality of Ferencváros, Budapest Capital District IX, with the support of the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists, in the framework of the Placcc Dance Festival.