During Dutch Design Week, on Saturday 25 October 2014, Sonic Acts presented A Day of Noise in Temporary Art Centre (TAC) in Eindhoven. The keynote speaker Hillel Schwartz, was interviewed by Sonic Acts on this occasion.

Hillel Schwartz (US) is currently the Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. As a cultural historian he is the author of the impressive Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond (Zone, 2011). As a medical case manager, he has published Long Days Last Days: A Down-to_earth Guide for those at the Bedside (2013). As a poet and translator, he has published, together with Sunny Jung, a translation of the work of the poet Kim Nam-jo, one of Korea’s leading poets: Rain Sky Wind Port (Codhill Press, 2014).