Music and video by Hannes Strobl ©2024
The city can be conceived as a living and dynamic organism, in which multiple movements unfold in relation to social, cultural, technological, climatic, and topographical conditions. These movements are not random; rather, they are structured by temporalities and spatialities that produce a multiplicity of rhythms.
Each rhythm follows a specific logic: some recur in cyclical waves with intensifying and diminishing intervals, others repeat in short and regular patterns, while still others are discontinuous, irregular, or impulsive. Taken together, these movements generate a complex interplay of temporalities that shape urban experience.
Urban space thus emerges as a polyrhythmic configuration, constituted by interdependent and interwoven processes. In this sense, the city is not only the site where rhythms are produced and perceived, but also itself a rhythmic entity—an ensemble of interlacing temporalities that, as Lefebvre suggests, can be rendered audible and intelligible through rhythmanalysis.