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Hidden Waves
Sound artist Gemma’s installation "Hidden Sounds" leads audiences through Utrecht to experience the city's canal soundscapes via hydrophone recordings. The route includes three underwater listening points where participants hear sounds transmitted through water, highlighting differences in soundwave speed between air and water.
Urban Auscultation
For months, the Covid-19 virus has passed from body to body around the world. Its corporeal work is silent, but it reshapes the soundscape wherever it goes. 1 Coughs and sneezes turn paranoid heads; ventilators whoosh in hospital rooms; streets go suddenly quiet, as people shelter inside. Kids home from school create a new daytime
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Walking All the Streets of Eastern Minnehaha | streets.mn
One can’t avoid the “Cult of Hiawatha” in the southeastern portion of Minneapolis, and so I once again found myself in a neighborhood named for one fictional Indian (Minnehaha) bounded by a highway named for another (Hiawatha), all of which was supposed to somehow make people feel better about living on the land of real
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How can we make streets better for children?
In Part I of this blog series, we discussed how car-dependent thinking and decision-making leads to unsafe streets and how this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy keeping kids off the streets and in cars. In this post, we’re exploring how we could make...
