Reverberations: The urban landscape from visible to aural
Talk given at Archizoom, the exhibition space of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), during the exhibition “Corps Sonore: Architecture et Son”. Other speakers were Francis Baudevin, Eckard Kahle and Bernard Leitner. +
Following the Industrial Revolution, a cacophony literally unheard disturbed the urban soundscapes. This situation brought about new initiatives, from philanthropic to commercial purposes, that aimed to localize, problematize or regulate these new forms of pollution. Soundproofing technologies, the exclusive uses of iPod or the soothing melodies of Muzak, a whole range of apparatuses outline this increasing desire to control sounds in urban contexts. At the crossroad of aesthetics architecture and acoustics, this conference emphasizes a paradoxical argument: The noise had to be visible to become problem.
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