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"Many among these young people walk, walk, without a break, do the tour of the sights, of Beaubourg, og the Forum: one sees them again and again, grouped or solitary; they walk indefatigably, chewing on gum or a sandwich. They only stop to stretch themselves out, no doubt exhausted, on the square itself, in the arcades of the Chiraqian Forum, or on the steps of the Fountain of the Innocent, which now serves only this purpose. The noise that pierces the ear comes not from passers-by, but from the engines pushed to the limit when starting up. No ear, no piece of apparatus could grasp this whole, this flux of metallic and carnal bodies. In order to grasp the rhythms, a bit of time, a sort of meditation on time, the city, people, is required"

Henri Lefebvre: rhythmanalysis, p30

Related reading:

Henri Lefebvre: Audio ressources on the Web (akutsk.wordpress.com)

Gaden som instrument #07 (by Phono Graffiti)

The street as an instrument for changing the way we interact.

Fonografiti or sound-art-as-street-art or soundtagging.

Workshop in Valby, Copenhagen. Six boys from neighbourhood participating. First part of this soundcloud sound is their impro. Second part is the composer's.

Using stuff from the stuff-swop-container at the temporary urban space by local community centre. Each thing were made to make a sound, and the sound was subsequently moulded by the participant's voice, performing a speech act around the thing's possible narrative. Through a sound analysis in the computer, the pitch and dynamic of the participant's voice formed the sound. Each participant's anthropomorphed sound was used for a collective improvisation.

This is a QR code referring to the sound file. This is fonografiti. The street is saturated by the visual. There is a virtual highway, uncolonised, ready for takeover by .... SOUND!!

Also read my blogpost:

Henri Lefebvre, The Urban Revolution (original text in French pub. 1970)