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The Park at Dusk · Echo 502

Yu Qing and Gu Chuan collect echoes in the park at dusk and discover that recordings of the same small performance differ greatly across different spots, rendering the single-point recording they had originally planned insufficient to represent the scene. The two switch to recording at multiple points along the pathway, annotating distances and surroundings. Listeners can compare their own auditory preferences, and participants realize that quiet areas need to be preserved; a sound experiment thus sparks a discussion on how different uses of the park can coexist.

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