Radio SUBMARINE Online broadcasting aims to archive Africa through sonic musicology, exploring African societies through their music, listen to different types of music genres and many languages, this project is based on African music that tradition mainly played at gatherings on special occasions the traditional music of Africa, given the vastness of the continent. This project is focused on playing alternative music, electronic music, sound-art tracks, and soundscapes from different...

Radio SUBMARINE Online broadcasting aims to archive Africa through sonic musicology, exploring African societies through their music, listen to different types of music genres and many languages, this project is based on African music that tradition mainly played at gatherings on special occasions the traditional music of Africa, given the vastness of the continent. This project is focused on playing alternative music, electronic music, sound-art tracks, and soundscapes from different...

Radio SUBMARINE Online broadcasting aims to archive Africa through sonic musicology, exploring African societies through their music, listen to different types of music genres and many languages, this project is based on African music that tradition mainly played at gatherings on special occasions the traditional music of Africa, given the vastness of the continent. This project is focused on playing alternative music, electronic music, sound-art tracks, and soundscapes from different...

Radio SUBMARINE Online broadcasting aims to archive Africa through sonic musicology, exploring African societies through their music, listen to different types of music genres and many languages, this project is based on African music that tradition mainly played at gatherings on special occasions the traditional music of Africa, given the vastness of the continent. This project is focused on playing alternative music, electronic music, sound-art tracks, and soundscapes from different...

Radio SUBMARINE Online broadcasting aims to archive Africa through sonic musicology, exploring African societies through their music, listen to different types of music genres and many languages, this project is based on African music that tradition mainly played at gatherings on special occasions the traditional music of Africa, given the vastness of the continent. This project is focused on playing alternative music, electronic music, sound-art tracks, and soundscapes from different...

Listening to the Echoes of Bergen: Mapping the Soul of a City by Yara Mekawei.

Listening to the Echoes of Bergen: Mapping the Soul of a City by Yara Mekawei.

Listening to the Echoes of Bergen: Mapping the Soul of a City by Yara Mekawei

Listening to the Echoes of Bergen: Mapping the Soul of a City by Yara Mekawei.

Listening to the Echoes of Bergen: Mapping the Soul of a City by Yara Mekawei.

Listening to the Echoes of Bergen: Mapping the Soul of a City by Yara Mekawei.

It is still early in the morning, a little before 8:30. Soon, the sun will rise, but for now, I can still see the last stars in the cloudless sky over Bergen. I am sitting on a concrete block, forming two oversized steps, leading to the edge of the sea in Nøstet. The microphones of my recorder, an old and slightly damaged TASCAM DR-100 MKII, are hanging over the edge of the lowest step and are dangling directly over the water. It is cold, near the point of freezing, but there is barely any...

It is still early in the morning, a little before 8:30. Soon, the sun will rise, but for now, I can still see the last stars in the cloudless sky over Bergen. I am sitting on a concrete block, forming two oversized steps, leading to the edge of the sea in Nøstet. The microphones of my recorder, an old and slightly damaged TASCAM DR-100 MKII, are hanging over the edge of the lowest step and are dangling directly over the water. It is cold, near the point of freezing, but there is barely any...

It is still early in the morning, a little before 8:30. Soon, the sun will rise, but for now, I can still see the last stars in the cloudless sky over Bergen. I am sitting on a concrete block, forming two oversized steps, leading to the edge of the sea in Nøstet. The microphones of my recorder, an old and slightly damaged TASCAM DR-100 MKII, are hanging over the edge of the lowest step and are dangling directly over the water. It is cold, near the point of freezing, but there is barely any...

The frst recording of the day. It is around 8:00 AM, and I am at the small wooden dock at Nøstet. It is wind-still and freezing cold. The water slowly bobs up and down, as is visible through the movements of the dock, but it almost doesn't make any sound. I've placed my recorder near one of the poles that anchors the wooden dock. It is attached in such a way that the wooden platform can foat up and down with the tide and now it gently and silently glides up and down as the water levels rise...

This was the sound trapped underground behind a beautiful iron lattice work on Haugeveien street where I live. This is where all the rain water from the street ends up. I recorded it around 23.00 on the 25th of October. It was cold and there were no cars around. The sound is soothing Running water is one of my favourite sounds It soothes and captivates The water is invisible to the passerby You have to look carefully in order to see it But it runs through the entire city The city is...

This was the sound trapped underground behind a beautiful iron lattice work on Haugeveien street where I live. This is where all the rain water from the street ends up. I recorded it around 23.00 on the 25th of October. It was cold and there were no cars around. The sound is soothing Running water is one of my favourite sounds It soothes and captivates The water is invisible to the passerby You have to look carefully in order to see it But it runs through the entire city The city is...

Then, in October 2023 I made the same recording, but with normal traffic, the same spot, and about the same time of the day.

Unveiling deep city soundscape. During the bicycle world championships in September 2017, the Bergen city center was closed for traffic. I used the unique opportunity to capture the sound of the city life unveiled on an ordinary weekday.

I made my way through the old warehouse of the Bergen Harbour, which is currently home to a variety of workshops and an artist collective. It was probably much louder when it still fulfilled its purpose of a warehouse in the docklands. Now the building is old and mostly abandoned. Since the county’s decision to relocate the harbour, it is waiting for its demolition.

The dockers invited us to join them for lunch. Old pictures of the docks and ship coats of arms, which were traditionally given when a ship reached the harbour for the first time, decorated the walls. The dockers spoke of generations of labourers who made their living off the docks, the oil and gas industries, shipping containers and nearly forgotten names of workers with blue overalls and black fingers. Nobody could predict the future. There is only the past and the present.

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