a series of sound workshops, a radio play and an audio performance carried out as part of the Sound Daycare in cooperation with the Municipal Museum in Tychy.
This story about Tychy is the result of workshops and sound walks led in May and June 2025 by Paulina Pikiewicz and Radek Sirko (a Tychy-Katowice duo co-creating the educational, social, and sound project “Sound Daycare” and collaborating with the Katowice Sound Department). During these workshops, as we explored Tychy, we examined the relationships between people-sound-architecture, and people-sound-nature. Participants learned about the urban soundscape and opened themselves to new possibilities of perception. Exploring the city’s topography stimulated creativity and creative activation. By listening anew, they sought its rhythm, sought its silence, and tamed the noise. The series was aimed at a broad audience: individual participants and groups – children, youth, adults (including seniors), and blind or visually impaired people with assistants.
The project was concluded with a public listening to the audio play “Greetings to Grandma” and an audio performance by Radek and Paulina.
The concert took place on September 28, 2025, in the square in front of the sculpture of Hanna and Kazimierz Wejchert in Tychy. The illuminated monument to the city’s principal architects, enhanced with strings and springs, transformed into a musical instrument of sorts. The artists played the sculptures using batons and chains, creating resonance. The entire performance was accompanied by a real-time electroacoustic soundtrack, incorporating genres such as ambient, drone, noise, and experimental electronics, as well as utilizing archival audio recordings from film chronicles and television newsreels.
Listen to the audio report and radio play on the Bandcamp of the Municipal Museum in Tychy:
Foto – Artur Pławski
