This evening, the Sound Development City 2013 expedition reaches its culmination with the final presentation in Marseille. The event features sound installations, audiovisual performances and interactive sould walks, created by the expedition’s artists. The final presentation takes place at La Friche Belle de Mai from 7 until 10 pm - here you can find out more.

Yesterday evening, Sandra Lang and Ana Bigotte Vieira presented the documentary «Bab Septa» (2008), a film by Portugese film makers Pedro Pinho and Frederico Lobo on the topic of migration and the European borders. The film and the discussion after the screening illustrated the link between the history of colonial expeditions and the economic impact of today’s migratory movements. Lang and Vieira believe that these issues have a resonance in France with its ambiguous relation to North Africa and especially in Marseille with its port and constant fluctuation of goods and people.

Stay tuned to the Sound Development City 2013 expedition’s aftermath on the project website as well as on Facebook.

The Sound Development City 2013 expedition has now reached Marseille. After an intense working week in Lisbon, the expedition participants departed individually, exploring various routes and means of transportation from Lisbon to Marseille. The projects have been coming to life, and all participating artists have been working on adjusting their concepts to the given framework.

Malose Malahlela documented the road trip on board of the Sound Development City Radio Bus cinematically. The first part of «Space Cadets 2013», covering their drive from Lisbon to Madrid and Barcelona, is already online – the rest of the trip will be uploaded soon.

The sixth Sound Development City Radio Transmission was the first transmission from Marseille, featuring Austrian sound artist and musician Wolfgang Dorninger. His project «text2field-recordings» is based on field recordings gathered by workshop participants and himself during the expedition, focussing on nature and technology. The recordings will be gathered in «Sound Containers», unveiling the sound patterns and –systems of the two cities.

Stay tuned to the Sound Development City expedition’s progress in Marseille on the logbook website and on Facebook.

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.