How much of a place can be understood through sound alone?

Acoustic Windows explores how sound shapes our perception of a place.

The project is based on field recordings collected in three different environments around Bolzano: a café, a market and a natural landscape. Rather than documenting these locations visually, the recordings were translated into typographic compositions. To create a consistent visual system, each recording was analyzed through multiple listening passes. Specific sound categories were manually annotated and transformed into typographic rules concerning placement, repetition, orientation and scale.

The resulting posters function as acoustic windows. Through listening, viewers construct mental images of places that remain visually absent, allowing sound to become a medium for observation, interpretation and imagination.