This lecture was held on Sunday, 23 February 2025, at SONOHR.

This presentation explores the concept of live, interactive audiowalks – sound-based performances that respond to and engage with the surrounding environment in real-time. Artists create soundscapes that dynamically interact with outdoor or indoor spaces, transforming the audience’s experience as they move through it. For participants, this means being immersed in an evolving auditory journey, where the sounds not only reflect the environment but also shape their perception of it, blurring the line between performance, space, and audience.

Sounding Situations develops highly innovative musictheater where the performers and musicians, the auditive and the audience meet in both physical and imaginary space for artistic action. Their projects create moments where political art, current questions of our society, reality, utopia, and artistic magic merge into a multilayered artwork. Since 2014 the collective explores theatrical situations between theater, staging and music. Live processing of original musical material, instruments, field recordings and language sounds are connected to a unique composition. The work always looks for a strong relation to the environment in its material, acoustic and political context. Collaborations range from musicians to choreographers, visual artists, authors, theater and film directors.