Ahwaz Sound-Exhibition

The way technology and urbanism moves, there will be a time no one remembered the simplest kind of sounds they used to be surrounded by before. As a small instance, Anahita used the gradually dying sounds from different spots around her home town to remind her audience of this massive neglected on-going extinction. The audience would have to play on six simple string instruments and as the result hear particular elements of Ahvaz soundscape along with the instruments sound, from different directions, projected by six speakers located around the place. Instruments were handmade, made of walnut wood. Attached to each piece three guitar string (No. 4, 5, 6), Bridges from an Iranian instrument called Santur and guitar tuners. Pick-ups were also handmade Piezzo contact microphones.