Cities, towns, and buildings are often defined by the tactile materials used to construct them. Metal, wood, glass, and greenery may play a role in creating spaces, but so does sound. Exploring artists whose work considers audio and the built environment, the series Sounds of Space delves into how artists have reexamined the acoustic contours of the sites we inhabit.
Marking the 45-year anniversary of Pauline Oliveros's Cheap Commissions, historic video footage explores Oliveros creating original works for anyone who approached her in Downtown Minneapolis.
The Haunting Call of Concrete: The Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan
How does utopian architecture of the past haunt today? Looking backward and forward Gordon Chapman-Fox explores the hauntology of UK New Towns movement through music.
How do we listen to the public spaces that we inhabit? Artist Max Neuhaus's explores this question through the ring of a church bell that no longer exists, a silence in time square, and sound forms made for plants.
