For the Lapataia Valley crossing (TIF 2023) we experimented with different methods of ‘registering’ the way, time, movement, progress, rhythm, structure, topography, climate, social interaction…
One attempt was a long duration recording (LDR) of the whole process. In total 416 hours of constant audio recording. Below you see the visual representation of that recording as a spectrogram mapped on the timeline. Certain events and conditions are characterized by their audible frequencies, highlighted and marked.
Now for its unfolding, a panoply of methodologically utilised categories (concepts) and oppositions would appear indispensable:
repetition and difference;
mechanical and organic;
discovery and creation;
cyclical and linear;
continuous and discontinuous;
quantitative and qualitative …
Henri Lefebvre , Rhythmanalysis – Space Time and Everyday Life
