Concepts and strategies for interactive audiowalks – Sounding situations / Milena Kipfmüller & Klaus Janek (en)

This lecture was held on Sunday, 23 February 2025, at SONOHR.


This presentation explores the concept of live, interactive
audiowalks – sound-based performances that respond to and engage
with the surrounding environment in real-time. Artists create
soundscapes that dynamically interact with outdoor or indoor
spaces, transforming the audience’s experience as they move
through it. For participants, this means being immersed in an
evolving auditory journey, where the sounds not only reflect the
environment but also shape their perception of it, blurring the
line between performance, space, and audience.


Sounding Situations develops highly innovative musictheater
where the performers and musicians, the auditive and the audience
meet in both physical and imaginary space for artistic action.
Their projects create moments where political art, current
questions of our society, reality, utopia, and artistic magic
merge into a multilayered artwork. Since 2014 the collective
explores theatrical situations between theater, staging and
music. Live processing of original musical material, instruments,
field recordings and language sounds are connected to a unique
composition. The work always looks for a strong relation to the
environment in its material, acoustic and political context.
Collaborations range from musicians to choreographers, visual
artists, authors, theater and film directors.