ACOUSTIC CITIES: LONDON & BEIRUT
Recomposing the City + Theatrum Mundi

This project invitesdartists and scholars from Lebanon and the UK to create works that sound out the spatial traces of memories, cultures, and bodies ingrained into the physical fabric of their cities.

The works offer listeners modes of language and tools to find forms of value in their surroundings that might otherwise go unnoticed, and to challenge the quality of their acoustic environments. In doing so, they will help to frame sound as a shared concern and a shared heritage that can be shaped as well as recorded.

This edition was a collaboration between Institute for Global Prosperity UCL, Recomposing the City, RELIEF Centre, Optophono and Theatrum Mundi. It follows on from Recomposing the City and Theatrum Mundi’s 2018 exploratory workshop ‘Urban Sound and the Politics of Memory’. Featuring work by Nathalie Harb, Merijn Royaards, Nadim Mishlawi, Gerard Gormley, Mhamad Safa, Joan Baz, Youmna Saba, Omaya Malaeb, John Bingham-Hall, and Christabel Stirling. Curated by Gascia Ouzounian and John Bingham-Hall. Published by Optophono.