AKKO GOLDENBELD: “PIANOLA”
graduated at Design Academy Eindhoven, 2010
photo credits: Design Academy Eindhoven (René van der Hulst)
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.