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[Un]Observed: Jason Kahn's "Unheard Zürich" (Audio)

Jan 14, 2012
Produced by Tania Ketenjian.
In this rebroadcast of Jason Kahn's sound work Unheard Zürich, produced in 2007, Kahn captures a city through its soundscape, and its residents through their perception of the sounds that surround them.

Writes Kahn, "In the radio piece "Unheard Zürich" I interviewed people from Zürich about what their favorite sound or sounding place in the city was and made recordings of these places and sounds.I decided to have the people interviewed speak in their native language (Swiss German, Italian, English), as this also reflects the sound of Zürich. Unheard Zürichis another in my series of Unheard Citiesworks, where I investigate how people living in cities perceive the sounds around them.

Unheard Zürich includes interviews with Magali Bucher, Mattea Gianotti, Jason Kahn, Mira Kahn, Hansjörg Köfler, Tomas Korber, Marcus Maeder, Dave Phillips, Ralph Steinbrüchel, Christof Steinmann, Christian Weber, and Manfred Werder.