CDA SONIC DRIFT is an artist led audio essay with a geospatial Sonic UX framework as its research structure. Focused on Brussels North’s Chaussée d’Anvers (CDA), the project traces, maps and interrogates sonic space shifts, the dynamic transformations of urban sonic environments, through field recording, differential listening and AI assisted analysis. GDPR compliant rooftop logging and AER/USS modules were implemented in collaboration with CERTH as a technical partner, ensuring both ethical data collection and technological rigor.

SENSING SONIC SPACE SHIFTS is a methodology for knowledge co-creation that captures the affective, socio-ecological, and political dimensions of urban sound. It centers lived sonic experience, integrates AI-powered listening with spatial analysis, and generates insights through collaborative, street-level observations of sonic experiences documented in a sonic journal or notebook.

The AUDIO ESSAY functions as a multisensory interface with dubplate listening sessions, risograph scores and GIS based dis comfort maps. These outputs invite public reflection on the politics of acoustic dis comfort, the role of AI in planning and the agency of communities in shaping their sonic environments.