While most artists already had left Lisbon, making their way to Marseille, François Tariq Sardi stayed a little longer, meeting architects, urban planners and musicians to take him across the city. On 30 September, he published the first part of his project «The Dream Committee» – an ongoing sound investigation process of an urban landscape which focuses on field-recording of soundscapes and open-mic conversations with local participants.

As part of his project, Sardi did several stereophonic environmental recordings earlier in Lisbon – as in the sound piece above, where he recorded the sea meeting the city.

The fifth Sound Development City Radio Transmission featured Lucas Norer, an Austria based sound artist and curator. In his «The Lisbon Route Project» he traces the accoustic paths of one of World War II’s main escape routes, on which thousands of people fled to Lisbon from the Nazi-terror via Marseille, hoping for a passage over the Atlantic.

The Sound Development City crew will come together again in Marseille on 5th October. Stay tuned to the expedition’s progress on the logbook website and on Facebook.

On the last working day in Lisbon, the expedition’s participants organized a fair with contributions from all artists, including sounds, music, books, performances and radio. Sandra Lang and Bigotte Vieira held their «Jeux Sans Frontières» book fair in the headquarter’s courtyard. Due to the weather, it had to be set up in tents, but this inconvenience only added to the inspiringly dense atmosphere.

The Maiden Monsters carried their project «the sound of crisis» once more out to the public, with a musical performance.

Some days before, they already followed the major’s election campaign and were able to persuade him to contribute to the song of crisis.

The Sound Development City crew is now travelling individually to Marseille, the expedition’s second destination. The artists will continue developping their projects while being on the road. Stay tuned to the expedition’s progress on the logbook website and on Facebook.

Day two of the expedition brought the first radio transmission from the Sound Development City Radio Bus. While riding the heavy bus through the narrow streets of Lisboa, South African sound artist, curator and networker Malose Malahlela was interviewed on his work, his background and the division lines between being a sound artist and a curator / networker.

On the evening of day three, artists and spectators gathered at the extraordinary Mãe D’ Água cistern for a sound performance by Tunnelmusik.

Find out more about the Sound Development City Expedition 2013 on the project and logbook website as well as on Facebook.

After a lot of preparations, the Sound Development City expedition has started. The 13 selected international artists doc­u­ment the ex­ped­i­tion and the pro­gress of the pro­jects daily by post­ing sounds, im­ages, texts and thoughts on the expedition’s logbook website.

An old camper van, converted into a radio studio, accompanies the expedition. In daily broadcasts the participants are interviewed on their background and work. Daily transmission via FM, live stream and upload at 7.30 pm on the Radiobus’ project website. The broadcasting times, the FM Frequencies and the URL of the live streams will be published on Facebook and Twitter.

During the Sound Development City expedition, there will be public events as well as artist performances in both Lisbon and Marseille. All dates, schedules and venues will be published on the logbook website, on Facebook and Twitter.