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Kumbima In Praise Of Sounds

Winner, Tbilisi Architecture Biennale 2020

Research project, Tirana, AL

Art installation

Completed 2021

Client: Tbilisi Architecture Biennale & Creative Europe

Team: Ajmona Hoxha, Alba Caja, Dritëro Nikqi, Guust Selhorst, Irida Shupo, Andi Haviari, Klevis Gjoni, Pierre Escobar www.kumbima.com under curated begin the experience

Í kumbím / ë, -a noun; meaning a prolonged ringing that seems to come from afar; from hitting something; echo sound; reverberation; echo: the sound of the drum; repercussion of a sound etc.

Kumbima proposal delves into the city’s joints soundscape to grasp a peculiar condition of its society via a sonic experience of ‘mutuals’.

Kumbima explores a ‘shared’ public ground following the ‘echoes’ of its performances. A set of ‘antagonist’ behaviors speak aloud: the bells chime, the minarets’ call, the choirs sing, while urban traffic bursts, children play and all comes together in an acoustic battle field of sound cacophony. The sonic experience of Kumbima, offer four professionally recorded journeys that transcends through the soundscape of the city. On the website sound transcendence happens through navigating through the page, while on the mobile it happens through rotation of the mobile 360 from all angles.