Fold_4 by Foldable Sounds

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4 people, 4 minutes of recording, 2 days to pass it on.

Archiving the residue of home-sounds, Foldable Sounds draws on the collaborative and independent nature of the child’s drawing game Exquisite Corpse (where one person draws a ‘head’, folds the paper, passing it onto the next person to draw the ‘torso’ etc until some sort of body is ultimately unfolded). The project was born out of a sense of acoustic boredom from being locked inside; the need to project one's ears onto someone else's head -just to hear something other than the repetitive sounds of the inside - in order to springboard the imagination into some other space/time.

Every ‘track’ was a product of 4 strangers digitally sharing, mixing, distorting and layering a maximum of 4 mins (each) of spatiotemporally unique soundscapes within the 2-day limit; interrogating the psyches of contributors as they curated each recording, and ultimately questioning how the exposure to varied soundscapes could change our experiences of a seemingly impermeable quarantine.

Sound collective trio based in Berlin, Leeds and London,
inviting participants from across the globe to collaborative create tracks via email-chain from field recordings of quarantined spaces. Traversing sonically across geographies and time- zones, raising money through sound for marginalised people and those in need.