Presentation of field recordings made at CSW Ujazdowski Castle
How does a place sound? About soundscapes and listening to the world
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15/02/2026
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17:00–18:00
- Tour of the sound installation “Trzy przestrzenie pod ziemią”
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Cistern next to the Castle
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from 18:00
- Presentations and discussion with the authors
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Laboratory, Wojciech Krukowski Hall
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Free admission
- The meeting will be devoted to the soundscape and different ways of listening to the world around us. The starting point is the notion of acoustic ecology popularized by R. Murray Schafer, which proposes listening to the world as if it were a musical composition. Over time this concept has been criticized, among other things, for its anthropocentric perspective based on human hearing limitations.
- Dorota Błaszczak’s project responds to this criticism and is based on week-long sound recordings from four sides of the Ujazdowski Castle. Such long-term recordings create a perspective inaccessible to humans and become the basis for sound analysis within the author’s Fields of Sound method.
- Justyna Stasiowska will present a project inspired by the work “Martwa natura z polami”, realized during listening to the Wrocław Irrigation Fields. The artist develops the idea of fakescapes — studio-created false soundscapes that challenge our ideas about nature and “natural” listening.
- Iza Smelczyńska will present a radio play dedicated to the Cistern in front of the Ujazdowski Castle. Juxtaposing archival sounds of artistic events with the current acoustics of the place will serve as a starting point for reflection on how the soundscape changes over time.
- After the presentations there will be a discussion with the artists led by Robert Losiak — musicologist, philosopher, sound ecologist, founder of the Soundscape Research Studio at the University of Wrocław.
The event is financed from the resources of the National Recovery Plan (KPO).
