Tour & Taxis - Jardin Collectif V

The collective garden located on one of the taluses supports the presence of rather unique urban sound spheres such as those generated by the collective gardening, cultivating the soil and gardeners, gardeners interacting with plants, trees, and animals. The presence of trees and bushes attract different animals. This contributes to a combination of different intense sound spheres. The part at the back of the garden was inhabited for a long time.

The urban sound space of the garden stimulates careful listening. Relatively silence spheres offer acoustic comfort. The intimacy of the garden allows for an increased sonic clarity and a vivid exploration of uncanny sonic phenomena.

Last winter, one of the firms located in the buildings adjacent to the garden decided to cut down trees against the wall so that it could install video cameras. This operation was preceded by the removal of trees on the border with the park a year earlier. Together with the trees, a part of the intimacy of this space disappeared. Spheres coming from the park and the surrounding streets can now penetrate the sound space of the garden. The removal of the trees in front of the wall led to an amplified effect of sounds bouncing back. Not only resulted this in a loss of intimacy, sonic articulation and opportunity for non-anthropocentrism, it also introduced a continuous and ubiquitous presence of electromagnetic waves.

A mix of this technological based sound sphere with the ecological intensity, persistent intimacy of the garden works on many levels—you can zoom out, you can zoom in, or you can drift somewhere in between, but no matter what position, human – non human one search approach the sound space of the garden, the space ends up enveloping you.

Recording (2021)