It enabled people to individually create a real-time personal soundscape of electronic music by walking through and interacting with urban environments.
Worn on the body, Sonic City retrieved information about environmental context and user actions in real time, and mapped it to the live audio processing of urban sounds, resulting in music heard through headphones.
At the cross-road between urban exploration and experimental music making, Sonic City promoted the integration of everyday life settings and practices into personal forms of aesthetic expression with digital technology.
[5][6][7][8][9] Among other places, Sonic City was presented at e.g. NIME and Cybersonica, and was demoed EU’s IST 2004 event in The Hague as an example of innovative European research.
It was featured in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac special issue on locative media, and discussed in a number of books [10][11][12] and leading publications about sound, technology and urban space as a "classic" [13][14] in terms of digital technology and sound creatively redefining public space.