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Qatar-based sound artist says it’s time to slow down and listen
Global Times, 18 September 2022
Disconnecting from the world
In a noisy, chaotic and fast-paced world, the Qatar-based sound artist Guillaume Rousere is on a mission: to get people to slow down and listen again.
Birdsong, insects chirping, the sound of wind brushing through tall grass or over sand dunes, all these form part of what the 44-year-old Frenchman calls his "sound art."
"Sound art is a discipline where the principal medium is sound and where the aim is to listen," said Rousere, who lives in the Gulf state that will soon host the World Cup.
For a recent audio project, he set up a microphone at an organic farm in Qatar, where he also recorded man-made sounds such as those of cars, planes and farm machines.
