Soundscape // Historic Mitchell Street
The experience of space is not solely visual. Several senses work together to shape and inform our experience of space. When we isolate individual senses, we tend to bias our understanding of an intended experience. Typically architecture is defined and communicated through visual means, excluding sound, temperature, weather, climate, heat, humidity, material, and smell. The messiness of reality. By isolating the visual as the primary mode of architectural communication has privileged the tools of space making to a small group of mostly white, mostly middle class, people. The soundscape project breaks down this primary mode of architectural understanding and subverts it with a solely auditory representation of the Historic Mitchell Street neighborhood.
Sound has the ability to represent space as it exists in time. In other words, a fixed 2D drawing of a street section has sterilized the experience of that street. The messy reality of the experience of urban spaces is such that the unintended, the accident, the contingent is experienced more often than the intended. As time passes the experience of a space changes because it is not a static object but a system of relationships. The pulsing of a neighborhood is better captured through methods that accept that architecture and urban space exist and are experience in time. This project consists of a series of ~10 minute recordings of Historic Mitchell Street. These recording are taken at different times of the day to facilitate a more wide spread set of recordings. The intent is not to find a single or fundamental 'sound' but to absorb the messiness unfiltered is search of the auditory discovery. |
S Tenth Street + Historic Mitchell Street
11:58am |