McSoundscape

The word “McSoundscape” refers to the Soundscape recorded from the interior space of McDonald restaurants in Hong Kong. Soundscape is the major medium of research and creation in this project, which allows audience to investigate the details of the surrounding environment, the actual activities, and all aspects of lived experience in our city space while making them a journey to the space of McDonalds. Through Soundscape, our audience can explore the space for themselves by an acoustic approach, get a realization that is detached away from the routine life in reality, and examine how the users of Hong Kong McDonalds have actively performed their sense of locality through some creative tactics. The goal is to demonstrate how the commonly practiced appropriation of space, as a visual spectacle in Hong Kong, could re-articulate and govern the changing identities, characteristics and meanings of our social space temporarily and transitorily.