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.

 

Accessibility

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Documentation

In a dark room, KMRU sits with headphones behind his laptop and mixing consoles. With his right hand, he controls his computer, while his left hand supports his head. Behind him, a large loudspeaker and bright wall tiles are visible.

© KMRU and Stiftung IMAI - Inter Media Art Institute, Photos: Kai Werner Schmidt

A futuristic-looking sound installation hangs from the ceiling of the white-tiled model room at the Heinrich-Heine-Allee subway station. Standing in front of it are people listening to KMRU’s audio piece.
A look inside the Velvet Café, where KMRU sits in the center of the room at a small table, surrounded by a laptop, mixing consoles, headphones, and a tangle of cables. The audience sits around him, listening with rapt attention.
A glance upward at the ceiling of the emergency exit at the UFA Palast Düsseldorf. Embedded in a metal plate are a loudspeaker and a glowing blue light. In the foreground stand two people, their heads turned in that direction to listen to KMRU’s FOLD II.
In the upper corner of the Salon des Amateurs hangs a large white loudspeaker, from which KMRU’s FOLD II is playing. The wall beneath the loudspeaker is clad in a multitude of white-and-yellow wall panels that create vertical stripes.
The basement of the Filmwerkstatt is almost completely dark. Only a few floor lamps illuminate the room, where several wooden chairs are arranged for listening to KMRU’s four-channel sound installation.

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