Sonic Passages examine a silent aporia in the architecture of cities and human experience, the literal and figurative absence of sound. While sound has great importance for human health, environmental and social well-being, it is conventionally neglected in favour of functional and visual qualities of space. The project provides a method to integrate existing urban sound environments and propose new ones, a live continuum that resonates over time. Sonic passages use live streams of soundscapes inside and around urban sites to form an interplay between existing and imaginary architectural settings. They act as a means to reconsider the past and the current, to build future spatial, material, temporal and social relationships.

Sound’s permeability enables Sonic Passages to operate beyond the discontinuity of physical barriers by allowing an exchange of activity inside, outside and around sites. This urban sonic interaction could provide us with new social and spatial relationships.