Updates
Updates
In early September, Michiel Huijsman, Hans Fidom and Jasmine Karimova gave a three-day listening workshop on the Wadden Sea coast. What could be heard?
A listening workshop with residents. The results will feed into the new design of the place.
Read the longread in Noema where Michiel tells what it’s all about!
We get this question a lot recently. Or in Dutch “Zeg, wat doen jullie nou eigenlijk?” Read the longread in Noema Magazine.
A presentation/workshop for geography students at Utrecht University about urban sound design of urban public landscapes.
“Did the virus re-calibrate our ears? Or did we just have more time to listen?” Listening in the time of Corona, an online discussion.
Presentation at Geluid als Stadmaker (Sound as City Maker).
Sound quality for the everyday city. Presentation at Geluid als Stadmaker (Sound as City Maker).
Presentation at Geluid als Stadmaker (Sound as City Maker)
Noise is part of city life, but so is tranquillity. The challenge is to strike a balance between the two. With its innovation project Luwte- en Geluidsplanning (Calmth and Sound Planning), the city of Antwerp is investigating how noise can become an active part of urban design.
For Herrie, a loudspeaker is more like a soft-spoken person, and life revolves around sound.
On October 11, 2025, 24 uur Zuid took place. Soundtrackcity created a number of beautiful audio walks in Amsterdam-Zuid, one of which, Geluiden en Verhalen uit de Diamantbuurt, was programmed twice for this day.
Students from a wide range of disciplines, from social geography to interaction design, researched how listening can contribute to a deeper understanding of our urban environment.
In mid-September, Renate took part in an evening event at Het Nieuwe Instituut focusing on how listening, in all its forms, can contribute to the way we design and manage cities.
In early September, Michiel Huijsman, Hans Fidom and Jasmine Karimova gave a three-day listening workshop on the Wadden Sea coast. What could be heard?
Ineke has lived in her oasis of tranquillity for so long that she no longer even notices the children playing outside.
Soundtrackcity participated in REVEIL again this year with an audio live stream from radio.earth on 3 and 4 May.
REVEIL is a relay of audio streams at sunrise during the first weekend of May, allowing you to take a 24-hour listening tour around the world. This year it was broadcast from an allotment garden, and last year from Berlin.
On Wednesday 30 April, Michiel from Soundtrackcity was a guest on Red Light Jazz Radio to discuss Urban Sound Design, with a particular focus on cars in the city.
Emma and Tessel are roommates, and although Emma has lived in the neighbourhood for some time, Tessel also quickly felt completely at home.
On 20 February, the workshop series ‘Discover at home with your ears’ came to a musical conclusion in the Amstelhuis. A report.
The name of Soundtrackcity represents three essential elements of the artistic audio walk: sound, walking and the city, respectively, the artist’s intervention, the walker’s activity and the environment to be experienced.
Manuel lives with his wife Els, daughter Leyla (9) and son Nikolaj (6) now for eleven years in the Van Ostadestraat
Remember World Listening Day last year when Michiel streamed the conversations of the wild chickens in the Binckhorst for 24 hours? When you missed it you can now listen back
Soundtrackcity launched its new workshop series ‘Discover home with your ears’ led by Alison Isadora, composer, and Renate Zentschnig, artistic director Urban Sound Lab, in January.
In Deuren naar een gedeelde dimensie, a municipal publication on eight years of art in Stadsdeel Zuid, Urban Sound Lab was chronicled as one of 23 exemplary projects.
The picture presents an intriguing image, a somewhat cluttered but not unattractive arrangement of lots of different parts. But what is actually in the picture, what can this constellation tell us? Where are we?
For this seventh episode of Listen with, we speak to Michel Versteeg who can distinguish the different streetcars passing through the neighborhood by their sound.
We organised a listening walk through the Binckhorst for visitors to the Binckmarkt XL at the Caballero Factory in The Hague.
Oct. 30, 2024 Soundtrackcity was visiting Red Light Jazz Radio.
Juul has noticed that certain sounds belong to certain days. She also likes a bit of commotion in the city.
A two-week artistic investigation in Berlin’s public space and its auditory affordances.
Christina spends a lot of time in Sarphatipark, paying particular attention to the rhythm of the sounds around her.
Angelika came from a house full of music and experiences life as a symphony. Even in the Amstel House where she now lives, she sometimes lets that symphony of life be heard.
TRACKS makes sound art accessible to a wide audience.
A listening workshop with residents. The results will feed into the new design of the place.
Noa loves the lively sounds in the Pijp where merchants tout their wares with a nice Amsterdam accent.
As of January 2024, Soundtrackcity will be working within the Dutch-Swedish research project SoundUP.
What sounds do residents of de Pijp hear and what sounds do they find appropriate in their living environment?
I listen to the way a voice vibrates, how loud someone talks and where the pauses fall.
How can residents’ experiences help build better-sounding cities? (Article in Dutch)
Read the longread in Noema where Michiel tells what it’s all about!
A lively exchange on pressing issues in overlapping fields of urban sound planning and design.
‘Play Play Play, all day every day’. The guide is for everyone who can (and wants to) play and listen.
Report on sound perception – Read the NRC article
We get this question a lot recently. Or in Dutch “Zeg, wat doen jullie nou eigenlijk?” Read the longread in Noema Magazine.
A presentation/workshop for geography students at Utrecht University about urban sound design of urban public landscapes.
Walk through very different sound atmospheres and experience how diverse the Zuid district sounds.
Soundtrackcity took the initiative to investigate how the sound of the city can be included in this urban redevelopement.
“Did the virus re-calibrate our ears? Or did we just have more time to listen?” Listening in the time of Corona, an online discussion.
Do-it-yourself home expedition filled with listening-exercises.
International, especially made for Covid-19 times. Favorite corona audio archives.
Share your sound impression with Soundtrackcity.
21 November 2019 we organised a short symposium: Collective urbanism through a multiplicity of listening.
The seminar Let’s Talk Listening was about the performance of listening in democratic processes.
Presentation at Geluid als Stadmaker (Sound as City Maker).
Sound quality for the everyday city. Presentation at Geluid als Stadmaker (Sound as City Maker).
Presentation at Geluid als Stadmaker (Sound as City Maker)
A one-day event organised by Soundtrackcity to present and discuss the results of the project Crowdsourcing Mr. Visserplein.
