Disrupted Architecture: Reimagining Buildings through Sound

This paper discusses work which changes our perception s of the built environment, and uses as examples two sound installations, Machines for Singing (2006) and Torch Song (2011) , which are designed to make audible hidden forces and events within the fabric of a building and to disrupt our preconce ived ideas o f a r- chitecture . Continuing a long lineage of soundart works which engage with architectural space, the pieces stream sounds collec t- ed from around a building to a listening point. By hearing the effect of human and environmental forces on the sounds ( M a- chin es for Singing ) or controlling them via a custom

made inte r- face ( Torch Song ), visitors gain a renewed understanding of the forces at play within the structure s around them.