The artistic research project urbanrecall is a multi-layered attempt to explore the complexity of human perception of the outside world through audible frequencies and the visible spectrum. Observation and experience play an essential role in the context of everyday life, which we perceive with the help of different sensory modules.

We do not want to be restricted by stereotypical assumptions from cultural anthropology, cognitive science, or cybernetics, which have strongly influenced the environment in general and urban life in particular.

We are more interested in an encounter that deals with the intensity and changeability of matter and mediality.  We would like to create an Intermedia space which reflected and criticizes this speculative condition in a multispectral behavior by video and audio elements.

Motorways create islands of forest areas currently being formed between junctions of urban infrastructure. In these areas, the urban city expands its infrastructural fabric deep into the landscape. The space that is bypassed through this condition ist labeled now as in between and moves into the background of perception.

What happens to our definitions of space and reality when we consider the city as an all-embracing synthesizer that makes us able to walking in and around.? The influence of increasing mobility as well as its impact, among other things on the hearing, which is confronted with new permanent frequencies of trucks, cars and motorcycles mark a new period of time in which a subtle noise reaches ubiquitous presence. Our project will be a synaesthetic investigation, which deals with the awareness of the invisible but powerful structures of the city. The source of the work of the investigation will be from references and cross-references of sensory, collective, and cultural memory.

The mise-en-scène of urban architecture and its auditory accompaniments is intended to illustrate the growing number of urban spaces and the transformation of the landscape: Where does the city cease and where does land begin? We encounter this question with audiovisual experiential image-topologies, which give this complex state a form. The web of complexity manifests itself in the smooth and straight forms of contemporary urban architecture. Man is no longer the reference of the topographic construction of urban spaces. It is all about logistics, transport, and industry – all according to standardized trade-specific constants.

Our focus is on the representability of a space-timecontinuum, which is characterized by urban spaces. In their form, the architecturally urban spaces are the expression of sociopolitical ideas and intentions of a specific period of time. Their impact on space in general and the contemporary human lives in particular and also their impact on the future should become a bit more clear. Our focus is on the perceptibility of the expansion of materials such as concrete and steel, which are durable for over a hundred years and their implicit intervention on the various periods of the time. The spread of urban infrastructure beyond the city space and their entering of rural areas is evidence of transformation processes. These should be made visible through visual and auditory layers of experience.

We are particularly interested in the density of the processes, flows, and mechanisms in a landscape, which is oriented towards a global temporality and loses itself in the forms of urban fragmentation. In detail, it expresses their speed based character, which fights against time. It can only be experienced when moments of encounter take up the spacetime continuum of industrial processes and reveal their cycles of monofunctional landscapes.

Therefore the work will be an installation that exposes the viewers to the topos of perpetual urban organizational structures.

For the realization of the work, we follow the approach of local participation and the encounter, which allows us to enter the moment of improvisation with the urban chaos. In this sense, we will investigate different soundscapes within urban junctions in order to reflect on what is aesthetically perceptible within an auditive milieu. This work approach refers to our everyday space-time experience and helps to understand and illuminate the intuitive knowledge embedded into the urban space.