Quinn spent three months recording the ambient sounds of abandoned buildings across Berlin — factories, cinemas, hospitals — capturing the unique acoustic signatures of each space. These recordings were then processed and re-projected into the exhibition space, creating layered soundscapes that evoked the absent architectures from which they originated.
The installation invited visitors to move through a darkened room where sound shifted and changed with each step, creating the sensation of walking through multiple buildings simultaneously. Directional speakers and carefully placed reflective surfaces ensured that no two listening positions offered the same experience.
Quinn's work reveals that every building has a voice — a characteristic way of shaping the sounds that pass through it. By isolating and amplifying these qualities, she makes audible what is normally felt only as a vague atmospheric quality, transforming architecture from a visual into a profoundly sonic art.
The project was accompanied by a limited-edition publication documenting the recording process and including essays on acoustic ecology and architectural memory.
