The work focuses on the sonic realm embedded in infrastructures of transport, investigating how human journeys originate from the cities and expand across different landscapes. Air travelling is often treated as mundane nowadays. The underlying rules of transportation and its societal functioning are fundamental to urban operation yet frequently overlooked. Flight routes generates invisible architectures where they take off from cities and expand to regulated pathways that sustain global movement. These essential rules comprise invisible networks and wireless signals that facilitate the exchange of information through language and audio.

 

I captured all the flight routes on the latitude where London is based, at a certain moment: 24th Oct, 14.22pm, reflected as the dotted lines in the video. When assembled, the traces form a circular map: a panoramic score of synchronised human movement.

 

By mapping these routes onto a piano roll within composition software, traffic can be turned into musical notation, and trajectories can be matched with beats and pitches. This transformation reframes infrastructure as both score and organism, where dense transport patterns are reflected by the intensities of sound. The regulated operations of routes are re-imagined, the activity of listening challenges the norms of what constitutes authorship, sense, and signal.

 

The work treats the sky as an extension of the city’s sensorium as well as modulators of activities within universal landscape. It invites audience to witness and listen to the trajectories, to correlate the density of transportation at different terrains with auditory intensity.