{"id":416,"date":"2023-11-27T19:45:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosacasado.com\/projects\/?p=416"},"modified":"2024-07-04T15:05:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T15:05:49","slug":"introduced-birdsong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rosacasado.com\/projects\/introduced-birdsong\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic parking lots of Providence \/ Introduced birdsong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a single working day, on Thursday 17th October 2013, and with the help of local residents, Mike Brookes and I highlighted thirty of central Providence\u2019s surface level parking lots that \u2013 contrary to assumptions that they are sites of transition, neglect, or failed developments &#8211; have in fact been designated and in use as parking lots since city surveys of the 1950s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/parkinglotsofprovidence\/lots\/map-800px.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The collective impact and physical presence of these sites within the city\u2019s centre was revealed and reframed by introducing movement-sensitive audio devices containing the recorded song of a single Lincoln\u2019s sparrow \u2013 a bird still present, but more common in the wetlands that were once part of the city &#8211; into all thirty of the lots simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/parkinglotsofprovidence\/westminster-street-birdsong.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this act, the work enabled direct and daily personal encounters, at a city scale, while allowing us to subtly shift the aural ambient of this city centre in actuality. And its realisation has \u2013 as we had also hoped &#8211; already provoked questions, conversations, encounters with bemused police officers, and amusement for some of the area\u2019s parking lot attendants&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/parkinglotsofprovidence\/lots\/01.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/parkinglotsofprovidence\/lots\/02.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/parkinglotsofprovidence\/lots\/03.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/parkinglotsofprovidence\/lots\/04.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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