We often focus on the visual and tactile qualities of everyday life, even though sound presence & sonic qualities are just as important for shaping an experience. Sound-in-Situ is an experiment aiming to enrich the projects shown at Dutch Design Week by giving them sonic context.

The concept aims to highlight materials, methods & content from these projects in sound and present them ambiently, rather than adding overly present visual or tactile elements. Through interviews with five designers about their projects, and recordings made from each project, five complementary compositions were created to be played continuously at the projects' locations. Listening closely to these compositions reveals the sound of fabrics & machines, the rhythms of mathematics, Pythagorean chords, and more. Separately, they showcase the project; together, they form one soundscape that keeps overlapping and changing dynamically.

This project was made possible by Fashion Tech Farm. The compositions are based on five projects shown at this location: 3D-printed fashion by Brigitte Kock, Design shame by Beam Contrechoc, Knit+, by Troy Nachtigall, Pied-de-Pythagoras by Loe Feijs, and the Pattern Project by Tess Geerts.