Live stream: mobile_cda.ogg
Recording: President Garden - Spring 2020 - Caroline Claus
President Garden, Chaussée d'Anvers (CDA), Brussels North, Belgium
Caroline Claus
Latitude: +50.86566775372839°
Longitude: +4.358135211872272°
The stream listens into the sonic atmosphere of an urban green infrastructure, structured by a contested planning history, contemporary vegetation and weather conditions, surrounding architecture, and urban usage patterns.
This live stream transmits from a rooftop position along the Antwerpsesteenweg / Chaussée d’Anvers (CDA) in Brussels’ Northern District, close to the private President Garden, situated on public land. The stream listens into the sonic space of the garden, defined by interactions among vegetation, weather conditions, traffic infrastructure, urban form, and urban activity patterns.
President Garden is located within an area structured by contested urban planning histories, including mid-20th-century office development, residential displacement, and contemporary initiatives focused on densification, mixed-use redevelopment, and ecological resilience.
Characterized by mature trees and dense vegetation, the President Garden operates as a sonic habitat that contributes to urban quality of life within the broader environment and landscape by modulating experience and perception. The recorded sonic space integrates multiple urban layers: vegetative sonics, infrastructural resonance, architectural reflection, and urban usage patterns
The observation position is part of multiple interdisciplinary projects exploring the potential of sonic urbanism and critical spatial planning, including studies of affective and emotional dimensions of sonic space shifts in urban transformation contexts—including the artist’s participation in the ReSilence S+T+ARTS Horizon EU residency.
Listening Notes:
President Garden is located within an area structured by contested urban planning histories, including mid-20th-century office development, residential displacement, and contemporary initiatives focused on densification, mixed-use redevelopment, and ecological resilience.
Characterized by mature trees and dense vegetation, the President Garden operates as a sonic habitat that contributes to urban quality of life within the broader environment and landscape by modulating experience and perception. The recorded sonic space integrates multiple urban layers: vegetative sonics, infrastructural resonance, architectural reflection, and urban usage patterns
The observation position is part of multiple interdisciplinary projects exploring the potential of sonic urbanism and critical spatial planning, including studies of affective and emotional dimensions of sonic space shifts in urban transformation contexts—including the artist’s participation in the ReSilence S+T+ARTS Horizon EU residency.
Listening Notes:
- Tree Canopy Dynamics: Birdsong defines spatial and temporal sonic markers, notably distinct during early morning and twilight periods. The presence of trees and bushes modulates sound through foliage movements and wind-induced interactions, producing shifting sonic vibrational textures.
- Infrastructural Vibrations and Mechanical Patterns: Persistent low-frequency resonances from motorized traffic and machinery underpin ambient urban sonics. Periodic dominance and recession of mechanical and construction-related sounds, notably traffic flows, and ongoing building construction, influence the sonic continuity and character of the area.
- Urban Social Living: Occasional pedestrian sounds, distant conversational fragments, and emergency sirens, provide insight into social interactions within the surrounding public space and nearby housing complexes.