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During the AmericanSoundsTour, the noise of the traffic of 27 American cities has been recorded as musical sounds.
AudioUnit 9 (AU9) transforms ambient noise to the sound-spectrum of an A-major chord instantaneously. The output of AU9 are recorded and synchronized to the films of the recording-situations.
AU9 was placed in inner-city traffic-situations all over the USA to record their musical embodiment. The result is over 30 15-minute video-sound-pieces.
The initiators of these music pieces are the causers of the noise environment. Such are all traffic-participants at the spot and time of the recording.
The dynamic and rhythm of these short music-pieces originate in the dynamic and rhythm of traffic as a self-organizing system.
click on the cities on the map above to see the results.
AmericanSoundsTour 2008