ReSound: An installation of architectural history, capturing layers of time. The windows still hear. The windows still resonate from more than a century of life. They exhale and inhale the street, San Pablo, the city, Oakland. Windows speak Cantonese. Shake with the rattle of the trolleys. Pulse with the click clack of the pants machines. They cannot see, but they hear well. Saturday June 24, 10-4. Live band outdoors from 11-1, so ideal listening may be before or after. A Windows & Chairs project in conjunction with the Oakland Heritage Alliance at the St. Vincent DePaul headquarters in East Oakland as part of their ReFresh festival. 98th Ave and San Leandro Blvd.

Oakland composer and sound artist Hugh Livingston presents a historical Oakland soundscape that reuses and remembers. Taking 135-year-old windows from two buildings on San Pablo that were recently torn down, Hugh makes them speak again, revisiting their history through the sound of the indoors and the outdoors. Using transducers mounted on the surface of the glass so the sound radiates directly from the window, the composition that Hugh is creating draws on historical radio broadcasts from each decade of the buildings' life, the clang of streetcars, conversations and remembrances and other natural evocations of time and geography. The buildings are gone, as Oakland's landscape changes and development takes over, but the windows remember their

history, starting with Oakland's original Chinatown, and witnessing decades of development. Still gently vibrating with the sounds of family life, rituals of birth and death, major historical occurrences, the window installation provides a look back into history. At The Reuse People, St. Vincent DePaul Center (98th/San Leandro, Oakland) REFRESH festival, June 24 2006, 10am-4pm. Exit 880 at 98th, head inland, left on San Leandro Blvd (BART tracks overhead). Left into the lot. The site is marked by a metal roof painted with "St. Vincent DePaul" that can be seen from space. Click on working photos for enlargements. The windows will hang as if from the frame of the vaporized building. Only sonic memories remain, echoing from the glass.