2018

The Well Tempered City

The Well Tempered City seeks to understand digital mediation of hybrid urban structures in the auditory perception. The series of installations are conceived as ubiquitous computation of subtle vibration-contents at the structural surfaces of a city. These surfaces serve as the physical interface for citizen’s sonic interaction with their personified everyday environment. The project employs participation and performative intervention of citizens at the built-spaces to generate sonic artefact. The artworks intend to represent the hybrid urban structures of architectural and built-spaces of a city as a living organism within an all-encompassing urban nature, which is essentially man-made by means of embodied experience. The project has been conceived and initiated during a fellowship-residency at Jaaga, Bangalore, where an initial piece has been produced, installed at the site, and performed in a 10-channel version as a prototype, and later commissioned by the RRS Museo Reina Sofía Radio, November 2014 to produce edition 2 of the artwork.

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

CTM Festival, Berlin, Germany
Urban Sonic Mediation / Human-City Interaction