Tour & Taxis - Park

This centrally located park offers a relatively large amount of open space. It can be experienced both visually and aurally.

It is often quieter here than in the public space of surrounding neighborhoods and allows its visitors to sense sound at long distances. Nonetheless, the urban sound space of Park Tour & Taxis reveals itself to the human listener as a dynamic space combining different sound spheres.

Human activity brings in multiple human-centric spheres traversing the sound space according to the season, time of day. Activities on construction sites, the organization of festivals and a gradually increasing and diversifying appropriation of the central green space reflect audibly the environmental and social transformation of the site make over a period time.

Traffic flows occasionally sparked by a sliding siren contribute to a distant ambient/drone core of the urban sound space. Activities in the surrounding neighborhoods manifest themselves first at the edges of this urban space from where they tend to blend gradually inward.

Sonic and/or non-audible vibrations, surpass many physical demarcations, allowing activity to travel over a longer distance.

Recording (2014)