Sonic Way-Finding system to navigate the river, through the city:

11 sound compositions are composed from various cultural, industrial, ecological and temporal vectors (i.e. samplings of archived oral histories, recent field recordings of the river, CB radio communications between freight vessel operators, and finally, stories of and about the river collected via the project’s dedicated phone line).

Each composition is then broadcast from a dedicated FM transmitter (22 in total) that is strategically placed to configure the footprint of the river through the festival’s downtown setting.

Tight overlap between one broadcast and another – varying 40’-60' radius per transmitter – affords a multivalent infrastructure to sonically discover the path of the transposed river.