Aural Events

Aural Events is a series organised by Silk Road Gallery and Noise Works, the Tehran platform for sound art and experimental music founded by Saba Alizadeh in 2014. It presents artists who use sound as their material. Working at the meeting point of visual and sound art, they find, record or create sounds from scratch, shaping them much as a sculptor would, by adding or taking away.

This edition presented Andreas Spechtl, an Austrian musician and writer born in 1984 and based in Berlin. Known for his band Ja, Panik, he has more recently turned to electronic and largely instrumental music. His work begins with the background sounds of everyday life, such as the hum of a taxi engine or the chatter outside a bar on a summer night, which he gradually turns into compositions. What he once sang about, the sounds now say for themselves.