Ring Road Ring: A Sonic Investigation of the Coventry Ring Road
What does concrete sound like? And what can listening to the city tell us about the built environment and how it makes us feel? This interactive soundmap of the Coventry Ring Road draws upon field recordings made by Dr. Michael Pigott, and released as the album RING ROAD RING in 2020. Using contact microphones attached to the concrete support pylons to amplify the low-level vibrations pulsing through the megastructure, this is the Ring Road as you’ve never heard it. This soundmap enriches the album with photos, video and texts that explore some ideas about soundscapes, urban space, utopian thinking, psychogeography, and electromagnetism.
