11 August, 2025

The sounds of infrastructure in Luxembourg

Photo by Carr, 2025
 
This year at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Luxembourg Pavilion presents an immersive sound installation titled "Sonic Investigations" (May–November 2025), created and curated by Valentin Bansac, Mike Fritsch, and Alice Loumeau with Ludwig Berger and Peter Szendy. The pavilion invites visitors into a sensory experience centred solely on the architecture of soundscapes across the Duchy.

Earlier this year, Carr had the joy of joining the team as they recorded a range of sounds at LuxConnect—a high-tech, secure data center in Luxembourg—capturing the super fascinating acoustic signatures of digital infrastructure.

A vinyl edition of the work, composed by Ludwig Berger and titled Ecotonalities: No Other Home Than the In-Between, will be released soon, including (but not limited to!) recordings from the data center. Additionally, a companion book Bansac, Fritsch, Loumeau, Szendy, Ecotones: Investigating Sounds and Territories, has been published by Spector Books.

And finally, look for their event on Saturday September 13 called, "Listening Along the Edge" at this year's Luxembourg Urban Garden (LUGA) festival in LuxCity.


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