Ears on the move

What do we notice acoustically when we move to another country, a new city, an unfamiliar apartment? What sounds accompany us where we live? And how do sounds influence our familiarity with a place? Ears on the move is a cultural participation project for people from different countries of origin. The contributors create audio collages and radio reports on typical listening environments and special sound experiences in their former or current homes.

After the project has already been carried out in five different cantons since 2017, a new project phase will start in Basel in the fall of 2023. A total of three project groups will develop the content for a listening exhibition that will be shown at the Museum der Kulturen Basel from February to April 2024.

Project management: Jacqueline Beck

Period: 2023 – 2024

Participation & Events

Participation in the project groups «Hyper-Listening» and «Biographies» is open to all interested and free of charge!

Project group «Hyper-Listening»

The focus of this group is on an artistic-associative immersion in places and their soundscapes.

Direction: Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

November 1 – 4, 2023 and January 25 – 29, 2024

Details and registration

Project Group «Biographies»

Here the focus is on telling life stories and experiences through sounds.

Direction: Anna Fierz and Christian Hilzinger

October 2 – 6, 2023, each 9 – 11.30 a.m.

Details and registration: Jacqueline Beck, Tel. 061 271 75 03

Project Group «Colonial Sounds in Children’s Media»

In the module «Cultural Mediation» at the PH FHNW, students examine how acoustic elements in school and children’s media shape our ideas of the «foreign».

Direction: Sascha Willenbacher

For enrolled students as part of their semester course