"If people don't go to the river, the river must come to the people"

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Soundtide is an interactive, site-specific urban sound installation set up along a 70-m stretch of the Danube Canal and on the side of the cycle path. Passers-by can hear a musical scale—made up of five increasingly louder falling waterdrop sounds—caused by the movement of pedestrians and cyclists.

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The waterdrop sounds can be heard independently of each other through small loudspeakers installed at a height of approximately 4 m and - when switched on by movement - are played for approx. 10 seconds each.

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The work addresses the possibility of interaction between people and water in urban spaces and asks questions about the accessibility of city residents to the existing urban water surfaces.