Reinvent the city in Moving SoundscapeMoving Soundscape

　　By He Jianwei

　　The noise of the motors and the cries of the vendors are the sounds of the city. Maybe you track urban life in photographs or keep the city in your diary. Some audio artists are attempting to capture sounds of the city you may have missed before.

　　Their project is called “Moving Soundscape,” and it includes recordings of routes in the city.

　　Transportation has become an essential part in daily world communications. The city moves, changes shape and evolves from past to future every day, and our bodies move with its flow. While not everyone owns an automobile, being in one allows us to move freely and discover the secrets behind urban shape and form.

　　In this year’s Get It Louder (GIL), the curators held a special event for sound art. Three groups of artists recorded their works from various city travel routes. Th work can be heard while taking a guided tour.

　　Where is the sound?

　　“Moving Soundscape” is a special project which combines sound art and urban geographical research. “We have invited some Chinese sound artists to desearch on the peripheral areas of each of the four cities within a 40-minute drive, to sample and analyze each city’s architectural styles, functions and noise index, and to create a new sound work based on this data,then install the work in a car,” Ou Ning, curator of GIL, said.The audience sits in the car and moves according to the itinerary set by the artist. They can listen to the artist’s sound work and get a visual impressio of the cityscape.