Echoes of Concrete: Acoustic Heritage of Endangered Brutalist Architecture in Belgrade is an artistic research project that investigates the sonic memory of modernist and brutalist architecture in Belgrade.

The project approaches buildings not only as visual or historical objects, but as acoustic spaces: places where public life, political history, material decay, social use and urban transformation continue to resonate. Through site-specific listening, binaural and Ambisonic field recordings, impulse-response measurements, vibrational recordings with geophones, hydrophone recordings and on-site observation, the project listens to selected architectural sites as fragile carriers of memory.

Focusing on endangered and contested spaces, including halls, foyers, passages, courtyards, exterior thresholds and other collective environments, Echoes of Concrete asks what can be preserved when a building is transformed, neglected, privatised or lost. Rather than treating sound as an accessory to architecture, the project considers listening as a critical method for understanding heritage, especially in places where memory remains unresolved or disputed.

Each selected site will be presented through photographs, a map, a written reflection on the building’s history, and an acoustic reading of the listening process. These materials will be accompanied by a short site-specific sound composition developed from field recordings, spatial documentation, impulse responses, vibrational traces and, where relevant, aquatic recordings.

The project is currently in its initial phase and will be updated progressively as the research develops. New sites will be added one by one, each with its own historical context, listening approach, visual documentation and sound composition.

Echoes of Concrete is developed in collaboration with Europa Nostra Serbia and funded by the European Union through Culture Moves Europe, a programme implemented by the Goethe-Institut.