Close-up of a square, worn, and dirty metal drain cover in Düsseldorf’s city center. Pale residues of old chewing gum are visible on its surface. Narrow openings reveal a pitch black space beneath, from which bright green moss grows upward.
© KMRUi

KMRU

FOLDS (In tape fields)

Work Description

In FOLDS (In tape fields), KMRU explores how urban infrastructure conditions and shapes listening in public space. Working with listening walks, detours, and incidental recordings, he approaches Düsseldorf as an auditory field in which routines, rhythms, and expectations overlap and intersect.

The work unfolds across multiple sites and loudspeaker systems throughout the city. Sound-based motifs, loops, and field recordings can be heard at staggered intervals and recur without forming a closed whole. Time is stretched, interrupted, or folded back in on itself. Meaning emerges in passing by, in lingering, or equally through what goes overheard. Rather than offering a fixed cartography, the work opens out to expansive, layered modes of perception.

 

Bio

Berlin-based sound artist KMRU (Joseph Kamaru, *1997 in Nairobi, Kenya) works with field recordings, ambient sound, and experimental techniques to explore listening cultures beyond dominant perceptual norms. He produces compositions, installations, and performances internationally and has released multiple albums, including with his own label, OFNOT.

 

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