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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![Surreale Collage mit der Sängerin Hermoine Zittlau als Königin in prunkvollem Rot-Gold-Kleid und Hermelinmantel vor einer violett-beigen Tapete. Links ein kleines Fenster, rechts der Gebärdensprachpoet Gunter Trube als königlicher Berater, dessen Größe und Pose ihn vom Raum losgelöst wirken lassen. Am unteren linken Rand ein angeschnittenes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund. Eingeblendet der Untertitel: „Her Majesty should listen in disguise“ [Du musst Dich umkleiden und zuhören].](/sites/default/files/styles/custom_desktop_crop/public/media/images/2026-03/Bildschirmfoto%202026-01-06%20um%2014.42.12%281%29.png?h=79933ff7&itok=iACR6CQT)
