The Music of the Place - 2024

The Music of the Place studio has been established by the students from Polish and Lithuanian schools, musicians and visual artists who cooperate with the Borderland Centre and Foundation. For years the studio’s purpose has been to find new ways of working on place narratives in sounds.  

In 2024, thanks to the grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture, the studio launched a double series of workshops, concerts and meetings devoted to the contemporary art of sound. The regular practices of the studio which are based on collective music experiments, improvisations, but also field work, listening to the world around us and recording the sounds of our place, will be related to the skills and techniques of the artists of field work recordings, drone, ambient or electro acoustic music.

Supervised by the invited guests and artists, the Music of the Place will work on the multidimensional sound map of Sejny and its neighbourhood which will be accessible through the smartphone Echoes platform. Each place will sound with its presence that will be recorded here and now by a particular artist and thus changeable; it will also recall the memory of the old audiosphere of our borderland by giving ear to the narrative recollections of the elderly inhabitants of our region and by setting space for sound fantasies and recalling the worlds and places that no longer exist. The layers of the map will be interwoven by the instrumental music that will be collectively composed in the studio.