Scents trigger memories. Can sound do the same?
Which urban space lives on in your heart?
Which urban space lives on in your heart?
Soundscape of Cities is an interactive installation that explores
how sound shapes our memory of place.
how sound shapes our memory of place.
Using a single knob and a slider, visitors move through different urban soundscapes. As the knob turns, layers of city sounds slowly crossfade into one another — traffic blends into voices, construction fades into wind and rain. At the same time, the visual space shifts, as if drifting through a field of floating particles.
The slider controls the resonance of the sound. When the sound softens, the particles slow down. When the sound intensifies, their movement becomes more rapid and dense.
Before interacting, visitors are invited to recall a city they once lived in, dreamed of, or long to return to. While shaping the sound layers, they are not simply mixing audio — they are revisiting moments, reconstructing fragments of memory.
The particle field represents a space of the subconscious, where pieces of memory drift and overlap. Even when we hear the same urban sounds, each of us carries a different experience of that place.
