Broadway Soundwalk by Sergio Sayeg

This past April 11th 2013 I walked the whole extension of Broadway Avenue in Manhattan with a field recorder in hand, registering sounds as I passed by different neighborhoods. The resulting six hour long soundwalk I edited down to different sound collages corresponding to different neighborhoods and acoustic climates I encountered. In this project, walking down Broadway while recording sound is the only guideline, or score, I set for myself in order to arrive at a the source material informing my sound collages. The urban landscape and its intricate set of relationships define the sounds heard. In this way what could be seen as the mundane unfolding of quotidian life comes to be the agent of my composition, celebrating sound that is dismissed as noise or non musical.