urban sound art / stadtklangkunst

Initiated in 2010 by the Beethoven Foundation for Art and Culture of the City of Bonn, the curated Project "bonn hoeren" by Carsten Seiffarth (Berlin) has been studying continuously the acoustic conditions and sonic contexts which define modern urban spaces. For that bonn hoeren appoints yearly one artist to be that year’s city sound artist of Bonn, for example Bill Fontana, Sam Auinger, Max Eastley, Gordon Monahan, Maia Urstad, Akio Suzuki, Erwin Stache, Andreas Oldörp, Christina Kubisch, Stefan Rummel and Edwin van der Heide. And with a residency the artist realizes a new sound installation for the city. In addition, the residencies include acoustic research and onsite investigations as well as scientific side events and education projects.