Cities And Memory

"A data sonification of the Lech River - the river as score"A river does not compose. It erodes, carries, deposits. Over centuries it traces a shape into the land — a shape that is the accumulated record of rainfall, geology, seasonal flood, and human intervention. This project begins with a simple question: what does that shape sound like?"Using computer vision applied to satellite imagery, I extracted the geometry of a segment of the Lech river. From this geometry I simulated 300 trajectories — triplets of coordinates describing the paths that small stones might travel as they roll along the water flow. Each triplet becomes a pair of pitches, derived from comparing the point's position within the river's width and the segment's length to a given musical scale. The data does not illustrate the river. It becomes the river's voice — oblique, distributed, never quite repeating.Listening like a river bank"The musical material is deliberately modest: long tones, broken arpeggios, pizzicatos. These are not interp