City Flow

This is a video I put together from a lot of recordings of traffic. This was the basis for my project. I wanted to show how people have set up systems to control the flow of everyday life, whether its traffic or pedestrians. I set up a camera on the top floor of the Absolute Hotel, to get a top down view of the city so I could get a better view of what patterns the traffic created. Then I set up a tripod in my car to get an in car view of the patterns. I went through lots of different objects that control motion; Traffic lights, roundabouts, one way streets and even a Garda checkpoint! If there's any definition of controlling movement, it's the Guards.

The soundtrack is from a collection of sounds I recorded from walking and driving through the city. Then I worked on them using sound editing software to create a track based on the stop start rhythm of the flow of city.