Flâneur Symphony | 城市閒蕩交響

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The street becomes a dwelling for the flâneur; he is as much at home among the façades of houses as a citizen is in his four walls. To him the shiny, enamelled signs of businesses are at least as good a wall ornament as an oil painting is to the bourgeois in his salon. The walls are the desk against which he presses his notebooks; news-stands are his libraries and the terraces of cafés are the balconies from which he looks down on his household after his work is done...
 Walter Benjamin

Strolling and loafing is an art; using ones own feelings and perspectives to view each corner of the city. The same corner may have different people seeing it using their own different perspectives, and roaming through it with their own different footsteps, to compose the city of their own viewpoints, and to develop an urban sensitivity to observe and be observed. 

City is composed by the interaction between people and city;

City is composed by the interaction between people and people.

Flâneur Symphony turns individual wanderings into music. It records the views and experiences of the city which belongs to the individual. The conversation between Flâneur and city wandering speed, location, interaction with others, etc. through the flâneurs steps are captured and turned to musical notes and rhythms. The audience watches and listens, but may choose to reverse the roles and use his own footsteps, to turn from the watcher to be the watched, and let others observe his city. 

Keith Lam's work, Jan 2010

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Film & Animation

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