At the ground floor of The Cadillac Hotel, one of those old historic Tenderloin buildings, lies The Tenderloin Museum, a museum that chronicles the history and character of the neighborhood of The Tenderloin. In collaboration with the ongoing Soundwave Biennial series of audio arts projects and exhibitions going on throughout the city until September, the Tenderloin Museum has created, with sound artists Kevin Corcoran and Jen Boyd, an audio collage of the residents of The Tenderloin, mixed with the ambient sounds of the neighborhood itself, that will serve as a soundtrack, performed live by Kevin and Jen, for a bus tour of the neighborhood on July 31st called “Audiobus - Energized Vectors.”

“I refer to it as kind of an experimental audio documentary”, says Kevin Corcoran, one of the sound artists who created the Audiobus sound collage piece, “The program is all based on recordings made in the neighborhood from people who we talked to, some people who have lived in the neighborhood for 50 or 60 years who we got to talk to with help from the [Tenderloin] Museum, to people we recorded talking as they pass by in their vehicles, to the sounds of people talking and kids playing in Boddecker park, to the way that the architecture of these buildings in the neighborhood sounds like.”

Kevin describes the sound of the architecture of the building and neighborhood itself not just as ambient sound but “hearing the way that architecture isn’t defined by the windows, or the walls, or the streets outside, but by these forms of sonic energy you hear through people. People opening up this other architecture that’s being created by people themselves inside and outside of buildings.”

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