Stone Tape is a sound installation created in collaboration with Armando Zamora as part of misael soto's Bridge Deconstruction Site. The work takes its name from Stone Tape Theory, the idea that ghosts are recordings, impressions of life and trauma held within physical structures, and that we replay these memories simply by moving through space.

The audio draws from interviews submitted by members of the public as part of the Bridge Deconstruction process, layered with field recordings gathered throughout Miami. The result is a meandering collage in which voices drift in and out between the sounds of crowds, music, industrial noise, and nature — simultaneously present and absent, audible only to whoever pauses long enough to listen.

The piece holds that built space is never neutral. Architectural structures and the arrangements of our communities carry the weight of cultural assumptions, reflecting and reinforcing relations of power, often invisibly. Stone Tape asks the occasional passerby to step outside those assumptions, however briefly: to look closer, listen deeper, and question what the city has quietly been recording all along.