THE MUSIC OF THE CITY
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
the 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, translating the urban developers’
three-dimensional reality into an aural experience. Stadsmuziek
(City Music) makes you tune in to the ensemble-playing that is
environmental planning.