Sound is everywhere – but we can’t always hear it. The artistic exploration of new sound materials draws attention to the previously unheard. The exhibition uses the concept of the sound byte to deal with the artistic exploration of new sound materials as well as electroacoustic concepts and installations that consciously use sound fragments and digital technologies as the basis for sound design.  

The sound byte stands for the smallest digital, audiolinguistic unit and serves as the basis for strategies of sampling, transformation and re-contextualization. New dimensions of acoustic space are opened up by digital communication media and open up unusual listening experiences. 
The concept of sound art is currently being stimulated by the integration of new mobile communication media. We encounter them every day: mobile telephony, Internet, wireless LAN and GPS. In contrast to the concert situation, the listener experiences new, overlapping, electro-acoustic sound and data spaces created by digital devices and techniques through mobility and interactivity.

The selected artistic works are consistent investigations of different sound materials, qualities and parameters. The aim is not so much to invent unheard sounds or new musical structures, but rather to use, question, reshape, superimpose and reuse existing materials and place them in an unfamiliar context. Installations, performances, presentations, acoustic walks and interventions in the city of Oldenburg offer visitors a variety of opportunities to question the casualness of sound, noises, rhythms, frequencies and electromagnetic fields and to acoustically rediscover everyday situations.