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Citymusic "Stadsmuziek" Akko Goldenbeld

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Uploaded by on Apr 20, 2011

Concept and design by Akko Goldenbeld

"The tall buildings in the city centre have a heavy touch; the low-rise villas to the South create considerably gentler sounds. Akko Goldenbeld has a very personal way of looking at, or rather listening to the city.

He has created a scale model of Eindhoven and assigned it the role of sound recorder; the buildings create a score. Placed on a revolving wooden cylinder the buildings set little hammers in motion that play the keys of a piano. And turning and turning, the city makes its voice heard: from loud to soft, long to short, high-pitched to low, traslating the urban developers'three dimensional reality into an aural experience. Stadsmuziek (City Music) makes you tune in to the ensemble-playing that is environemental planning."

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  • hi akko,

    brilliant! genius! now i understand what are you designing, last time youre trying to explain it to us but we just didnt undestand it (:-() its just difficult to comprehend hehehe... man youre amazing!!!!! were proud of you..... keep it up.. groetjes, Maria op Vlie

  • @athena022402 Thanks! :P ;)

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  • Now reverse it and use music to create a city map.

  • @ItsThatGuy8669 I'm confused. Were you expecting a song, composed, and written? I think the point of this is to "hear" a city. To alter it so it plays a song written by a person entirely defeats the entire action. Why would that impress you?

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  • Applying one system (a city map) to another, entirely unrelated, system (a tonal system manifest in a piano) just creates random, nonsensical output. True art would find a way to make those systems speak to each other to result in something meaningful.

  • @shinenrise machu picchu

  • Wiv contour's we whant.

  • it would be awesome if a city could be found that could make a musical masterpiece via this process

  • How many drugs does one have to ingest to even think of something that could waste so much time to sound so horrible ?

  • Это что?

  • To all the people whining about the dissonant sounds...You have the taste of an illiterate farmhand in the year 1880 who pinned to see a vaudevillian show for the price of a marble.

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