It seems that after the start of the war, the feeling of a peaceful city has changed. The sounds of everyday city life: traffic, children's cries, subway sounds, people noise in stores, birds singing, etc. - sound deafening and discouragingly. The understanding of the horrors of war in Ukraine is more striking in contrast with this concentrated peaceful life in Russian cities. Field recordings were collected by sound artists in different cities of Russia - Yekaterinburg, Moscow, Vladivostok, and the area of Karachay-Cherkessia after February 24^th, 2022. Artists take the concentration of this dreamlike tranquillity to a terrifying extreme by creating a 4-channel soundscape from field recordings. The presentation was held as part of the Back to the Future route at Night of Museums in Yekaterinburg.

The first part of the presentation was in a live format, where sound artists were compiling the sounds of different cities into 4-channel live sessions. The second and main part was a 4-channel real-time stationary sound installation. Field recordings were compiled into an aleatoric composition where each listener was able to immerse him/herself in the sound space of deafeningly peaceful cities.

Collaboration
Vladivostok – Aleksei Martyniuk, Maxim Erikaikin, Tory Samokhina (Students of the practice-oriented master’s program —Digital Art at Far-Eastern Federal University).
Yekaterinburg – Herman Busygin, Andrey Chugunov, Alena Gureva, Katya Kolpakova, Katya Chervonnykh, Irina Vilkina, Daniil Bochenin (Participants of Young artist laboratory in Yekaterinburg).
Moscow – Nadia Xyxu, Kamila Yusupova, Olga Oleneva (Students of the ArtTECH — NUST MISIS Master Program, Moscow).