These are sound art pieces based on urban field recordings performed in Bucharest by teams of teenagers from “George Cosbuc Highschool” and “Dinu Lipatti Highschool”. The pupils were assisted by Komunitas Association members: Ioana Florea and Miruna Tirca. We would like to address many thanks to some friends that helped us with technical support and theoretical suggestions during the workshops we had with these teenagers: Radu Mihai Molosaga, Alin, Maria Balabas.

The idea of this project was to realize sonorous representations of Bucharest city and show its diversity within an acoustic frame. It was an experimental project which determined us and the young pupils to discover our city from a different point of view and to transform these new perceptions into sound art expressions.

Inside Outside is trying to realize sonorous portraits of domestic space vs. the outside open public space of Bucharest. This work uses home-recorded sounds mixed with different city sounds in an attempt to offer an auditory meaning of private and public space ( 7’25” )

Mimi became a song which uses samples recorded in Zabrauti-Ferentari, one of the disadvantaged neighborhoods of Bucharest, inhabited mostly by Roma populations. The woman’s voice (Mimi) speaks about the situation of this neighborhood, also about her dreams of leaving and buying a house in the countryside ( 2’57” )

Urban Acoustic Visions is the result of field recordings in different areas of Bucharest. It uses a wide variety of urban sounds: means of transportation, birds, voices of scrap iron collectors, voices of women selling clothes in the street, rain, dogs, voices of church priests, ambulances, etc ( 4’59” )

Urban acoustic visions – remix: remixed version  ( 4’29” )  

Future Sounds of Bucharest – piece of sound art imagining a post-industrial Bucharest. ( 4’08” )

Cityscapes – short sound mix following the story of somebody that leaves home and goes into the city ( 2’18” )

Dreamland – a city walk that ends up in a dreamland ( 3’12”)

My crazy house – piece based on the sounds of a family in a house ( 3’15” )

Funky piss – between 2nd-4th of April 2008, there was the NATO summit in Bucharest; this installation uses fragments of official speeches and TV news from that time mixed with pieces of songs and personal voice-recordings from our team ( 11’03 )