[Đà Nẵng] Sound Ride
09:30 am, Fri 10 Jan 2025
Participation Fee: 50,000 VND / 1 participant
Limited 20 people
You must know how to ride a motorbike!
Registration link
From the organizer:
The Siedl/Cao group, invite you to join us for a unique “listening ride” around Da Nang city on motorbikes, accompanied by kites equipped with flutes attached to helmets. We need 20 volunteers, with the sole requirement being: you must know how to ride a motorbike!
More Details About the Concept of “Tracing Urban Memories and Present”:
In this sound ride the artists Cao Thanh Lan and Gregor Siedl create a dynamic interplay between the city’s auditory fabric and the organic resonance of mobile wind instruments, reimagining the experience of urban space.
By attaching aeolian flutes to their helmets, 20 participants generate a haunting polyphonic drone that weaves through the fabric of the urban cacophony. These two sonic layers act as context for each other, inviting contemplation on ourselves within the city’s rhythms, its hidden geographies, its social complexities, and its historical roots. The flutes act as both instruments and antennas, helping sending and receiving „signals“, „thoughts“ at the same time.
The drone of the aeolian flute is typically found in an agricultural setting in Vietnam. By integrating this rural instrument into the city’s sonic landscape, the artists challenge the notion of escape into nature as the sole route to connection with one’s surroundings. Instead, they invite us to consider how the city itself can offer moments of sonic reflection.
This work underscores the tension between the modern and the ancient, the urban and the pastoral. In doing so, it reveals the often overlooked potential of sound to deepen our engagement with the spaces we inhabit. By transforming the familiar hum of the city with the timeless drone of the aeolian flute, the artist creates a multisensory experience that resonates with the pulse of urban life while gesturing towards a deeper, more rooted understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
This sound ride is part of the project „Into the blue“ by Siedl/Cao.
About artist group Siedl/Cao:
Siedl/Cao with Cao Thanh Lan from Vietnam and Gregor Siedl from Austria, is a Vienna-based artist group who work in the field of sound art, transdisciplinary art and contemporary music since 2013. Siedl/Cao is one of 5 groups from Austria that received the award New Austrian Sound of Music 2018-2020 in the category Contemporary Music. Works of Siedl/Cao have been featured at numerous art institutions, festivals and cultural venues. They have been touring in Europe, Japan, Brazil, Iran, China, Taiwan, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Finland, Vietnam, Australia and Indonesia.
About organizers:
Founded in 2019 in the Da Nang-Quang Nam, A Sông is an interdisciplinary collective of artists, performers, curators, and filmmakers committed to nurturing a grassroots art community in Central Vietnam. By organizing and curating events such as art festivals, screening programs, and communal gatherings, A Sông emphasizes the symbiotic relationship between artistic expression and the non-art aspects of life. This approach situates the collective at the intersection of art, community development, and socio-environmental discourse.
VCIL Community is a network and community of people who advocate paradigm shift toward a regenerative and well-being society through alternative education and social entrepreneurship. There are 4 main areas that VCIL Community has dedicated to: Alternative Education, Social Entrepreneurship & Alivelihood, Regenerative Development, and Community & Ecosystem Building.
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