This is an interactive map on which you are invited to upload recorded sounds of your environment. It seeks to create an archive connecting sounds of Past, Present and Imagined Futures in Kiruna and the Binckhorst. In the Sound UP Map you will also find installations, representation of sound walks and other artistic outcomes of the research project Sounding Urban Places.
Sounding Urban Places (2024-25) is an interdisciplinary arts-based research project, which explores the experience of sound in urban environments currently in transformation. The research is carried out in the mining city of Kiruna in the very north of Sweden, and in the Binckhorst area in the Hague. Sounding Urban Places invites inhabitants to listen to their living or working environments, and share their experiences through recordings or in interviews. The project brings sound artists and researchers from different disciplines together, to develop new methods for community engagement and artistic approaches to urban sound as an integrated part of city planning. Sound Urban Places wishes to contribute to the creation of more attractive living environments in future living areas in Europe.
Sounding Urban Places is an ERA-NET Cofund Urban Transformation Capacities (ENUTC) research project, with national funding provided by The Swedish Energy Agency and the Nationaal Regieorgaan Praktijkgericht Onderzoek SIA (Regieorgaan SIA), part of the NWO. The lead partner organisation is the Piteå School of Music at Luleå University of Technology with the University of the Arts The Hague (Koninklijk Conservatorium), the Leiden University (Academy of Creative and Performing Arts), and a number of arts and community organisations in both countries: Soundtrackcity, I’M BINCK in the Netherlands, and Kluster in Sweden.
Further information about Sounding Urban Places, publications and artistic production, please visit the webpage of Sound UP at the Sound Studies Centre.