This is a past event
Aberdeen Humming is a public sound installation that brings out the sense of place and of community through humming. Come along and listen and if you recognise, why don't you hum along?
As a community project, it concerns collective memory through songs and uses humming as a mode of revealing such memories.
Since this summer, Dr Suk-Jun Kim has collected hums from people in Aberdeen by asking them to hum a tune that would remind them of their childhood. The collected hums were used to ‘compose’ the final humming piece without any sound manipulation, except some fade-ins and outs as well as amplitude changes, which will be played back through eight speakers at a low volume.
Some of the hums were also gathered by Music and Communities students at the University of Aberdeen (Rebecca, Ben, Fiona, Laura, Tamara, Christine, and Yasmin). Aberdeen Humming was supported by sound festival and Aberdeen City Council.
More information: http://humming-project.org/
- Speaker
- Dr Suk-Jun Kim
- Hosted by
- Aberdeen City Council
- Venue
- Seventeen, Belmont Street, Aberdeen