Local Lore

Local Lore explores sonic tales of places through a portable, situated transmission station connecting sites with off-site listeners in real time via sonic transmission. Through four channels, it acts as a listening interface, constructing focused encounters with the material and temporal dynamics of places. Off-site listeners gain partial access to a site through a livestream. This process of technological mediation reshapes how places can be sensed, understood, and related to.

Working with mediation as a fragile and selective process, the work investigates how meaning and knowledge emerge through technology and listening in relation to places.

Currently, the transmission station streams from locations around Strandeiland, IJburg — an artificial island in continuous formation — tracing ecological, political, and economic forces at play. Through repeated engagement with the site, sonic fragments start to accumulate, preserving Strandeiland’s current condition and transformation. Sound becomes a force of spatial production, and listening a method for engaging with spatial transformation.