Drawing the sounds you hear on the walls with light. A quick little sound design for a fun project at The Echoing River. Project was realised together with Dr John Fass and Dr Tyler Fox installed in the garden of Espacio Open. The Echoing River is a DRS2022 Bilbao Lab project that expresses the relationship between Zorrotzaurre and the river that surrounds it. Working at Espacio Open, 14 students from London and Bilbao have collaborated to materialise this relationship. They present a series of spatial and acoustic experiences that position sonic placemaking as a way to enable shared imagining. Post industrial urban environments offer irresistible opportunities for gentrification. Our aim is to build a shared culture of radical openness in an area of the city currently threatened by property speculation. The process of generating experimental ideas, sharing material explorations, and collaborating across disciplines offers an alternative to orthodox consultation. With this lab we sought to value what is already there here and to show that the fragile and [recasious working and living conditions on Zorrotzaurre represent a social and material ecosystem that should be nourished and supported.
