Park L28 - Bleu Zone

With the project of Pannenhuis Park Brussels carved out a new public urban sound space.

The sound space fuses different elements such as humidity, trees, focus, stillness, seemingly random patterns, chaos. It brings in a mixture of sonic intensity and spatiality, in part due to the design and program of the new park, but certainly also due to the presence of the railway line and other industrial heritage. Some of its sound spheres such as those generated by the water element and dense zone of trees are quite adequate for inducing a kind of aural contact with nature that not many public spaces in Brussels have. The mix of elements such as water and trees in a corridor triggers the articulation of more random elements. The park allows more unexpected shapes to perform and its sound space takes on unforeseen timbres. Different elements situated in the landscape, the old or newly installed architectural systems bring in various immersive material.

Compared to Park Tour & Taxis, there are more immersive spheres here. These spheres gain extra power from their regular alternation with the piercing sound waves of passing trains, another prominent sonic attribute of this urban sound space.

Recording (2014)