border soundscapes – Western Thrace

Proposal for an exhibition

Speaker Forest

This room consists of approximately forty suspended loudspeakers arranged across two connected spaces. The speakers form a porous, forest-like architecture at varying heights. Sound circulates through them intermittently rather than continuously.

The material is composed of field recordings gathered along the border landscape of Western Thrace: wind in burned forests and wetlands, pastoral environments, infrastructural vibrations, distant artillery, train passages, and public address systems. Certain events are reinforced at low frequency through minimal subwoofer support.

Many speakers remain silent at any given moment. Sounds emerge, shift position, and dissolve. The spatial arrangement allows acoustic bleed between zones without fixed listening points. The room presents the border as an environmental condition rather than as a defined line.

Example 1 . of compositions and sounds

Example 2.

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5 videos with FM transmissions

This room consists of five transmission clusters. Each cluster includes an iPad and headphones connected to a low-power FM receiver.

The transmitted material alternates between voice testimonies, spectrogram visualizations, text fragments, and minimal sound elements derived from recorded infrastructures. At times only voice is present. At times only spectral trace or text. Silence is also part of the structure.

Each cluster operates on a dedicated frequency. Visitors tune the receivers to access the transmissions. The installation tries to make audible different voices from the border by putting together human voices with sounding infrastructures dealing with topics such as the ecological catastrophe in the area, the migrant crisis, the minority and the border it self.

short examples of the material for these clusters

Then the are state witnesses, I do have a lot of recordings from public speeches and parades that are quite interesting but I do find this video as well interesting: