If These Walls Could Talk

If These Walls Could Talk is a participatory soundscape that gives visitors the opportunity to listen to the sonic history of this space and contribute to it. The experience encourages people to consider sound as an emergent form of recordkeeping. Using a quad speaker array, three microphones, and a looper within Ableton Live, the room becomes an additive and reflexive log of all events that have occurred nearby. This configuration creates a blank textbook onto which the history of the room is written. “If These Walls Could Talk” demonstrates that audio is a malleable, reflexive medium we can use to record a truer history for our descendants to learn.