Acoustic City addresses itself to the political dimension of hearing. This leads straight to the topic “noise”. The glorification of noise dates back to 1909, to Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto. It gave birth to the idealisation of war and machinery, and spawned an uncritical exaltation of progress and of noise. From today’s perspective it is tragically obvious that futurism was above all a harbinger of fascism – and the world is afflicted today with most of the things that Marinetti considered highly desirable: 100 years later we counter the Futurist Manifesto with the Acoustic Manifesto!
