During Alisa Oleva’s residency she will explore the night, and how the night sounds in an urban space: How does the soundscape change as the city transitions into darkness? Who walks the streets at night and who is absent? What if she wakes up and she can listen to the livestream of the night outside in her own city? Can we listen to distant nights in other places? How do they sound? The night in a city at war with a curfew or a night in the city where it never gets dark in summer?

She plans to walk a lot during the night and at the transition of sunset time – when the night comes and the darkness settles and the street lights switch on. She will also invite others to join some of those walks to walk the night together. She will bring one of the streamboxes with her designed by Soundcamp to explore what it means to listen to the night from a distance. She has been running an After Dark Reading Club which is a reading group that takes place in public spaces at sunset and everyone brings texts about darkness that they read together in the city as the darkness comes and the street lamps are switched on.