The SOUNDBUS is a concert in a moving bus that uses the emerging sounds from the bus to create a live soundscape to a group of audiences simultaneously situated in the bus. A sound-system is installed, making it possible to capture, manipulate and playback emerging ambient sounds from various mechanisms, frictions and anomalies from the bus. These sounds are sent to the audience via a vast headphone-network. 

The SOUNDBUS audience will be given a corporeal and sonic sensation of a journey into a mechanical organism brought to life. Audience has described it as a physical trip into an early 90ies, dark ambient soundscape. By placing audience amidst the soundsources a sense of kinetic development is added to the whole experience. An instantaneous feeling of presence as a radical add-on the meditative ambient-music genre.

The SOUNDBUS is a situational concert in a mobile frame. As it is traveling through a predefined route, the changing landscape and gravitational/kinetic movement becomes a score for the musical performance. The SOUNDBUS recontextualizes the 100 years old futuristic manifesto ‘Art of Noise’ as well as the musique-concrête genre. It takes an indeterministic approach to composition and musical performance.

The SOUNDBUS has been commissioned by ACTS festival 2012, LAK festival 2013, Wundergrund festival 2014/ Danish Art Council 50 years anniversary and by Danish Composers Society as part of the programme for the Danish Peoples Gathering 2015

The SOUNDBUS is conceived as a scalable and adjustable model, with the intent to create an optimal artistic appropriation to human logistics within cultural events. It has 50+ headphone outputs and can easily be readjusted to accommodate a larger or smaller group of audiences. The SOUNDBUS is - for every new version - developed as a context dependent and site-specific composition. It has also been an artistic recidency/exchange project, giving guests-artists a radical challenge to their practice and skills. It has been tried and tested in numerous settings and with different audience settings and has been commissioned multiple times.

Interview from Danish National Radio, P1. Click here

Videotrailer from LAK-festival. Click here

Full project description. Click here