Wenn es um die Wichtigkeit der Entschlüsselung urbaner Rhythmen einer Stadt geht, drängt uns Augoyard dazu, all unsere sensorischen Fähigkeiten – einschließlich der akustischen – einzusetzen:

‘Listen to our cities.Is it not the very nature of the urban environment to make us hear, whether we like it or not, this mixing of sounds? Dull murmurs, machine noise, the shifting and acoustic racket created by people - every urban moment has a sound signature, usually composed of many sounds together.’

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AUGOYARD, J. F., MCCARTNEY, A., TORGUE, H., & PAQUETTE, D. (2006).

Sonic experience a guide to everyday sounds. Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press.

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Die Untersuchung der Akustik vor Ort entstand durch die Aufnahme der Stadtgeräusche an vier verschiedenen Orten in der Stadt Rotterdam.

An ‘urban soundtrack‘ was compiled for each location that was consequently translated through Processing, a sound visualisation software that involved the writing of a computational code based on variations in frequency (hZ), time (s) and intensity (dB). Each visual is paralleled by a 2D analysis of each sound-generating activity (whether human, mechanical or natural) that reveals the rhythms of daily life activating the site-adjacent urban grain.