Playground-Playsound

rationale: Field research and interviews with local community and playground’s administration revealed that the need for "inside"- spaces that could be used for various activities was much greater than the need for a sound installation.

proposal: Building on this, the proposal is a modular system consisting of suspended tarpaulin pieces and rubber bands, to which all sorts of scrap materials (PVC tubes, straws, bamboo sticks, nut shells, plastic bottles, bags, etc.) can be attached, transforming them and incidentally the whole playground into musical instruments. As an installation, this raises awareness both to the natural soundscape and the acoustic properties of different materials. But most importantly, in using already existing in-between spaces, rediscovering hidden zones and confined spaces underneath the walkways, by structurally connecting the inside to the outside, it creates flexible spaces for activities, film projections, barbecue parties... The children and staff themselves are orchestrating new partitions of music, new partitions of space.