Acoustic Spaces is a research and creation platform that explores sound, architecture, memory and place through artistic, technical and academic practices.
Rather than separating artistic production, acoustic research and academic work, Acoustic Spaces approaches them as interconnected ways of listening to place.
Through field recording, impulse-response measurement, spatial audio, soundwalks, and site-specific composition, the projects gathered here examine how spaces are heard, used, remembered, and transformed. Listening becomes a method for tracing architectural conditions, historical layers, social relations and the acoustic identity of specific environments.
„For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing.“
Featured Projects
The projects presented here span sound art, acoustic heritage, spatial audio, field recording, installation, and artistic research. Rather than belonging to a single discipline, they use listening as a way to engage with architecture, memory, landscape, urban transformation and historical space.
Echoes of Concrete (ongoing)
Acoustic Heritage Thingvellir
A research project documenting the acoustic conditions of Þingvellir National Park through impulse-response measurements and Ambisonic field recording. The project explores how historical and archaeological sites can be studied not only visually or textually, but through their acoustic spatiality.
Tags: impulse responses · acoustic heritage · historical acoustics · Ambisonics · site documentation
HofBox
An immersive composition based on field recordings, spatial audio and acoustic impressions gathered in Iceland. The project explores landscape, resonance and poetic listening through multichannel, binaural and virtual listening formats.
Tags: immersive composition · field recording · Ambisonics · VR · landscape listening
An artistic research project on brutalist architecture, acoustic heritage and contested urban memory in Belgrade. Through field recording, spatial audio and situated listening, the project investigates how endangered architectural spaces can be heard as carriers of historical and political traces.
Tags: acoustic heritage · brutalist architecture · dissonant heritage · field recording · spatial audio
Journey to the Center of the Sound
An interactive sound installation investigating the acoustic and social dimensions of Berlin courtyards. Using impulse responses and spatial listening, the project examines how architectural forms can reflect patterns of use, proximity, separation and urban memory.
Tags: Berlin courtyards · aural architecture · social space · installation · impulse responses
ongoing inquiries
Across artistic projects, research processes, soundwalks, installations, performances, field recordings and immersive audio works, Acoustic Spaces returns to a set of recurring questions:
How does sound shape the perception of space?
How are places heard, remembered and transformed through listening?
What kinds of spaces emerge through memory, imagination, narrative and immersive media?
How can acoustic traces document, preserve or reactivate the identity of a place?
How can spatial audio create relations between external environments and internal geographies?
What forms of knowledge become possible when listening is treated as a method of artistic, technical and critical inquiry?
These questions do not define separate categories. They move across projects as shared lines of inquiry, connecting acoustic documentation, artistic research, spatial audio, field recording, heritage practices and narrative forms of listening.
research & academic work
Alongside artistic projects, Acoustic Spaces includes research-based writing, lectures, teaching activities, publications and collaborations with cultural and academic institutions. These contributions extend the practice into contexts such as sound studies, acoustic heritage, spatial audio, field recording, aural architecture, critical heritage studies and artistic research.
This section gathers texts, presentations and academic work that frame listening not only as an aesthetic practice, but also as a method of documentation, analysis and situated knowledge production.
project Index
The archive brings together a broader selection of projects, collaborations, soundwalks, recordings, installations, research processes, academic contributions and technical experiments developed over time.
It is intended as a documentary space rather than a curated portfolio: a place to trace connections between artistic work, acoustic research, spatial audio practice, field recording and situated listening.
For collaborations, research inquiries, lectures, workshops, commissions or spatial audio projects, please get in touch.
