Struer is The City of Sound

Yesterday in Struer, multi-artist Søren Lyngbye presented his latest work: a 3 x 2.40 metres large sound machine. The purpose of this installation is to interact with the citizens. The sound machine is part of the project ‘The City of Sound’ (‘Lydens By’) created by The Municipality of Struer and supported economically by The Aarhus 2017 Foundation.

Reknowned Danish multi-artist Søren Lyngbye has had a fine and varied career as an artist spanning over the last 30 years. His latest project – ‘The Sound Machine’ – was presented yesterday in Struer at the local Infocentre. The hope is that this machine will have a disturbing and dazzling effect on the ones using it – plus a more obvious one: A sound machine exists, well, to create sounds.

If you take an interest in this, we highly recommend that you visit Struer. Citizens of the town, tourists, school kids etc. have the opportunity to try all the functions and sounds of machine until October 20th – and it is free of charge. 

Strategic project
Struer IS The City of Sound. There is no denying it. Sound has a very specific meaning in a municipality where world famous company Bang & Olufsen has maintained an iconic status for approximately 90 years. In this timespan, the company not only has been responsible for thousands of workplaces, but also for branding the entire area, thus having a huge impact on the identity of the citizens, cultural life, business structures and the creative environments.

Therefore, The Municipality of Struer has developed the project ‘The City of Sound’. A project partially financed by The Aarhus 2017 Foundation. The purpose of the project is to maintain, continue and renew the DNA and the many skills inherent in the area. ‘The City of Sound’ is about putting a new and different agenda on the map: An agenda focusing on employment, settlement and branding. Sound is the epicentre of all activities leading up to 2017. 

‘The City of Sound’ is one of 44 strategic projects that will receive funding from The Aarhus 2017 Foundation.