Sound of Nairobi write that: We want to tell you about our new project Sound Pressure Levels.It is a field recording project documenting the current political atmosphere in Kenya. The coming presidential elections in August 2022 in Kenya are already raising...
Sound of Nairobi write that:
| We want to tell you about our new project Sound Pressure Levels. It is a field recording project documenting the current political atmosphere in Kenya. The coming presidential elections in August 2022 in Kenya are already raising political and social temperatures. In Kenya‘s political past, ethnicity has been narrated by mainstream national and international media as a defining factor for winning an election, one which would be instrumentalised by politicians in their campaigns. Now a new narrative is on the rise: „Hustlers vs. Dynasties“, suggesting that this time the lines are drawn along social classes. It seems that in Kenya’s political scenario words and sounds can be the deciding factors in winning, holding or losing power.In a 5 month recording phase we aim to document this moment in Kenyan history through the medium of sound, recording the voices and noises of the time. With a diverse team of recordists we will collect field recordings, seeking everyday situations, live experiences and detecting the general sonic atmosphere in public places in different parts of Nairobi from April 2022 until election day. The field recordings will enter the SON archive and can thus function as documents to study. They will be a resource for future generations shaping and complicating the mainstream and stereotypical ideas of what politics mean in Kenya. |
| To get this going we set up a Fund Raising Campaign. (We never did something like that so let’s see if this can work). You can find it here. |