Comfort Zone

In Kyiv alone, hundreds of pre-revolutionary or Soviet-era ghost buildings have fallen into disrepair, lost their function, and turned into non-places, patiently awaiting restoration, reconstruction or demolition. Some of them are sites of regional or national importance.
We recorded impulse response and sampled the acoustic space (convolution reverb) of the city’s abandoned buildings. We have also collected the soundscapes of four historically significant ancient capital cities: Beijing, Kathmandu, Kyiv, and Rome.
By choosing one of the buildings, the listeners have an option to fill its acoustic space with the natural or human-made sounds from the list to contextualize it by themselves. Thus, the space deprived of its original purpose can be transformed into an imaginary place: a house, a studio, a school, a construction site, a transport hub, natural habitat, a place of worship or leisure, or a hybrid of them all generated by a listener’s imagination.
The sounds list on this page includes original recordings with no reverb added.

Please, use headphones for better effect and combine the recordings.