A project around sound, sites, stories and history where listening and oral storytelling was the key. It deals with told and untold stories and memories in villages in west Sweden. The stories are supposed to be listened to on site and are reached via a mobile page. The stories as well as sounds from the sites depicted in the stories are collected and recorded on site by the artist and local community members during a research period and are then accessed in the very same sites through a geo-localized mobile app.
Sonic Site Stories
Oral storytelling for the preservation of cultural heritage
Challenge: Cultural heritage based on oral storytelling and embodied memories risk disappearing with de-industrialization and urbanization affecting rural communities.
