10 artists gathered at the Blue House in Șona village, Brașov county to develop an artistic project employing two rarely connected mediums of expression – sound and book. The working process involved conceiving an artist’s book starting from a mental image or from sounds produced/ recorded during the residency program. Hijacking the senses’ routine, the moments planned for field-recording /

the recording became the main element in shaping the content and form of the book. Keeping in line with previous Sounds like a Book edition, the Bandwidth residency incorporated two workshops and a series of lectures held by artists working in sound art and graphic design. This year, the artists in residency worked with Lukas Jakob Löcker, sound artist, and with the team of the design studio Grapho_mat and met also Gabriel Barbu – graphic designer, Simina Oprescu – sound artist, and Mihai Sovãialã – visual artist. While Simina introduced the participants to writing techniques in acousmatic composition, Gabriel presented to them the process of book production and Mihai got them acquainted to self-publishing design. During the two workshops of sound art and graphic design, held by Lukas Jakob Löcker and the Grapho_mat team (Andreea Mihaiu, Andra Pavel, Mihai Popescu), the artists developed the content and shape of the books, exploring the various aspects of communication – the theme of this year’s Residency. Being such a bountiful subject, the theme invited multiple approaches and different working practices with other media. The main interest, however, was the social aspect of communication, the immanent communality of any communication process, the (signal) transmission in the sense of a connection between entities, leaving in the background the content specific to information (a sensitive subject in the post-fact era), the sender-receiver dynamics, the medium’s features and their impact. Lukas Jakob Löcker also encouraged the artists to pursue other approaches, such as: social media, obsolete mediums of communication, signal transmission, words / signs, sign / language, error, remix.