As a result of his residency at SPACE Residency Lab in Bratislava organized by SPACE Gallery Allard van Hoorn realised a site-specific performance for the Novy Most on October 28, 2011 from 5:30 - 6:30 pm. This performance took place in a restaurant and on the observation deck on top of the bridge. 006_Urban Songline is an another piece in a series of performances which have been realized by the artists during last 3 years.

The idea was to record sounds that the bridge makes and have these recordings broadcasted from Vienna by free radio Orange 94.0. Then the artist picked up that signal on the observation deck on top of the UFO (restaurant) on top of the bridge and made live music out of that sound with software on a laptop. Then it was played to the participants and observers of the performance on the observation deck.

This then became an Urban Songline:

____The tradition of the Songlines, a system for navigation and caretaking of their land among Aboriginal Australians,
translated to mapping urban space by creating music from its topography, discussing how we use and experience
the public domain and to what degree we can claim ownership over it____

Reasons why Allard van Hoorn decided to do this performance on the New Bridge were rooted in the history of the observation deck. Although it existed there from the very beginning of the New Bridge /structure completed in the 70`s of the 20th century /, it had been closed until recently because the 'capitalist' Austria could be seen from the observation deck.
Therefore Allard van Hoorn decided to describe that line, the Urban Songline between the two cities in a radio-signal that was made into a permanent piece of music that could be listened to at that location and which describes that line of a view looking towards Vienna from Bratislava. Through this songline the two cities were connected for a while.

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Other examples of Allard van Hoorn`s ongoing project Urban Songlines can be found at:
http://www.allardvanhoorn.com/biography_005.asp
http://www.allardvanhoorn.com/biography_001.asp

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006_Urban Songline realized in Bratislava was made possible thanks to the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic.

Urban Songlines Gasworks was realized with generous support from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.
http://www.fondsbkvb.nl/

More info on artist`s work:
http://www.allardvanhoorn.com