POLYPHONY

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“Polyphony is a performative, audiovisual installation that invites visitors to contemplate the role of sound in shaping our world. For millennia, humans have lived surrounded by a rich symphony of life composed of insects, birdsong, the rustling of leaves, and the cries of various creatures. The biophony of our environment (the animal sounds of a specific habitat) has shaped human language, songs, musical instruments, and other sonic traditions. Polyphony is a tribute to this entangled relationship between humans and the animals with whom we share our environment. It also serves as a monument to the human and nonhuman songs that are being lost due to industrialization, urbanisation, noise pollution and species extinction.”