Echoes of the Bell of Birth

The starting point of the hidden story line of the sonicArk project is the pulse which causes the birth bell in the library of Dokk1 to ring when a child is born in Aarhus. The echoes of the bell rippled out to the city over several weeks by a surprising intervention of the bus drivers of Aarhus. Many busses of Midttrafik were equipped with a little tubular bell. The bus drivers were informed when a mother gave birth to her child in Aarhus, and they were requested to ring that little bell inside the bus and to briefly open the window, where the sound of the bell found its way to the open air: “Happy birthday, little child!” Then the bus driver became a “base driver” of the City of Aarhus as he or she started the engine of the bus: “Have a nice sound day, Aarhus!”.