1999
Between Two Points
You step onto the bridge, walk up, reach the center, walk down and step onto the other side. The center, between the two railings of the bridge, seems louder. The closer one stands to the sides, the softer the sounds seem. There are blocks of sound, alternating every four and a half meters. The bridge is divided into seven sections, with the accompanying sound blocks forming a pattern of A B A B A B A. Thus, while there are only two sounds, it seems like many more, because of the combinations produced by one's different positions on the bridge.
Like the car passing by the office building, there is a baby crying in one of the nearby apartments. Its voice is integrated into the bridge, into the sounds which now seem a part of the neighborhood ambience, even if they are always somewhat distant from that "world", always separate in the sense that they are unchanging. The baby will stop crying. The sounds on the bridge will continue. The sound, as Neuhaus describes, is "there and not there, a sound and yet not a sound". Like the length of the passage over the bridge, the time that one spends between the two entrances / exits, like the relevance, the relationship of different sonic elements in the space to each other, it is up to the listener, the viewer, the walker to decide.
©MNE