The basic idea behind Displaced Sounds is to focus on the hidden influences, implications and possibilities of sound. We feel these elements are under-documented in our visual culture however it’s clear that we live in a world inhabited and surrounded, some say polluted, by sound. We are losing and neglecting our ability to hear and listen because we’re so busy with tuning things out instead of tuning in.
On this blog we’ll try to inform, collect information and research on the topics of found sounds, acoustical effects, ethnomusicology, sound ecology and field recordings,…
Displaced Sounds is an initiative of STUK arts Centre and label annex concert organisation Kraak. Displaced Sounds is in the first place a series of concert evenings, lectures and artist presentations at STUK arts centre, Leuven.
Displaced Sounds is a project by:
Pieter-Paul Mortier works at STUK arts centre and is responsible for the media art program and the Artefact festival. He also teaches at the audiovisual art department at Sint-Lukas, Brussels.
Dave Driesmans co-founded Kraak, an organisation that works on adventurous music. Web-nerd.
