Recursive Construction

Generative Sound-Installation for 4-point Surround Sound.

The potential development of Tempelhofer Feld has long been a matter of discussion and despite great efforts to use the area as a space for commercial residential development a peoples' referendum in 2015 saw a sizeable majority voting to retain the area as public space. Thus, the former airfield remains as a symbolic and tangible refuge and sanctuary from the oppressive forces of exploitative gentrification.

The sonic pollution which occurs as a result of the process of construction and urban development might be considered in itself as an oppressive and largely un-regulated force. As relentless waves construction projects continue to expand into areas of public and re-purposed space within the city of Berlin, so the sonic result of this expansion impact ever more greatly on the lives of its residents.

Recursive Construction is a spatial sound project which uses the sounds of construction and building as a basis sound source for an interpretive work which approaches and critically considers the auditory and socio-psychological consequences of the sonic by-products of construction and commercially orientated urban expansion.

The piece presents these basis sounds alongside localised environmental recordings from the field itself to create an interwoven mesh of acoustic reference points which bring into question the nature and effects of two divergent and antithetical sonic landscapes_