The city can be heard as an ensemble of instruments. Architecture, infrastructure, materials, and movement interact to produce constantly changing sonic environments. Bridges resonate, traffic becomes a rhythmic structure, courtyards transform reflections into sound fields, and hidden vibrations reveal the acoustic character of urban spaces.
The categories in this collection serve as points of orientation, highlighting different ways of listening to specific acoustic phenomena such as resonance, rhythm, drone, transition, and spatial transformation. However, these phenomena never exist in isolation. Each sound environment emerges from the interaction of multiple factors: material properties, architectural space, movement, human activity, and perception.
These works explore the city not as a collection of sounds, but as a network of processes through which sound is generated, shaped, and perceived. Listening becomes a way of discovering the invisible structures that surround us.
This approach is part of a long-term artistic exploration of urban sound developed through projects such as tamtam (Sam Auinger / Hannes Strobl), where the relationship between sound, space, architecture, and perception has been a central focus.