Being taken back in time to the night of the terrible Dresden air raid on 13th February 1945 is possible at the “Touched Echo.”
Touched Echo balustrade at Brühlsche Terrasse (Dresden)
Dresden, a German city by the Elbe river, was bombed by the allied troops on the night of February 13th 1945, only a few months before the end of the Second World War. Tourists in the city have the opportunity to recreate that fatal night with a curious sound intervention located in Brühlsche Terrasse.
It is a sound railing which takes advantage of bone-conduction to transmit the echoes of that night to the ears of the visitors. All you need to do is place your elbows on the balustrade and cover your ears with your hands.
This way, you can hear the noise of the bombing raid suffered by the people in Dresden. Back then, they shut their ears away from the noise of the explosions; now you need to shut yours to put yourself into their place and get an idea of what it must have felt like that night.
This project allows visitors to get a more complete and closer look to the city taking them from this historic place into the past, and at the same time, the intervention in public space is minimal as only when you adopt a mentally as well as physically contemplative position you can hear it.
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Touched Echo balustrade at Brühlsche Terrasse (Dresden)
