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ooo collective Bratislava – Petržalka
zdruzenie.ooo Fero Kiraly, Eva Vozarova
Latitude: +48.0918073256974°
Longitude: +17.11578526257526°
Five years ago, the neighbourhood began to be redeveloped—first into a public park with ample recreational facilities; later, construction of high-rise apartments began. The acoustic environment changed rapidly.
During the day, human activity dominates: playground sounds mixing with a dog run and heavy construction. At night, whatever remains of the non-human life emerges, as best it can. It is being pushed farther and farther away as the city continues to expand. Mostly, it is obscured by the sounds of passing cars from the motorways that encircle the southern edge of the city, about 1.5 km away. From time to time, a distant call comes from a handful of shrubs and patches of vegetation that still remain standing hundreds of metres away, or from the occasional young tree in the park.
The soundscape will likely grow richer again over the next few years, as construction comes to an end and stops driving nesting species away, and as the vegetation planted in the park matures. For now, though, we are in limbo.