
Inaudible Cities
2002-01-01 · 7 min · Not rated
A short films where cities are made of and controlled by sound. Every detail of an urban landscape is built by the sonic pressures of an oncoming electrical storm. The very fabric of this isolated world is defined by the noises and frequencies that surround a space in another aural dimension. Semiconductor wrote a program which listens to the various parts of the soundtrack and constructs the animated environments.
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- Joe Gerhardt, Semiconductor, Ruth Jarman
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- United Kingdom
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