Using a complex sound world for a participative dismantling and redefinition of the collective appropriation of industrial landscapes

How can the complex soundworld of electronic musicians inspire the development of a new vocabulary and tools for describing and exploring the postindustrial transformation of urban sound environments? Through participation in two artistic projects, ‘Parckdesign 2014’ and ‘Het Geluid van Hasselt en Genk’, research is conducted into a new evaluation of the transformation of two urban areas which are physically and socially marked by their industrial past. The avantgarde output and experimental collaborations of independent electronic record labels provides the conceptual and methodological basis for a participative dismantling and redefinition of the collective appropriation of acoustic territories of former industrial zones in the centrally located canal zones of two urban areas.