Somewhere in Between...
This video is a creative response to the aural and visual environments of Johannesburg through the lens of field recordings and artistic input
This video is a creative response to the aural and visual environments of Johannesburg through the lens of field recordings and artistic input
Listening to and looking at Johannesburg, we notice that aspects of what we experience now also reveal aspects of the past - that its rhythms are rarely random, that there are subtle shifts in auditory ambiances when moving from one space to the next, that the sonic fabric of the city is a combination of heterogeneous layers, and that different parts of the city have a distinctive sound. These distinctive acoustic zones of transmission can be divided into the industrial areas, the township, the inner city, and the leafy suburbs. These divisions reflect the legacy of spatial planning along racial lines and, perhaps more subtly, also reveal how the city has shaped itself around the perception of noise.
