A sonic investigation into the systemic functions of concrete infrastructure. Digital track, 17:30. Click here to listen.
The work centres on a brutalist concrete stairway in Park Antona Codellija, Ljubljana, which I digitally photographed, converted into a 3D representation using open-source photogrammetry software, and databent to produce an audio interpretation of the geometry of the staircase using signal-processing techniques. This translation from structure to sound foregrounds the embedded logics of the stairway: its gradients, repetitions, and interruptions become audible as a system of relations in organising movement and directing force.
The stairway itself belongs to a wider history of rationalist infrastructure shaped by post-war Yugoslav architectural thought. Its geometric regularity and material austerity reflect broader logics of planning grounded in Cartesian design principles. These logics persist in contemporary infrastructural environments, often operating beneath the threshold of conscious perception.