Kraków has always felt like a city suspended in time. I’ve walked its streets at night, listening to the echoes of the past that seem to linger longer than they should. With MOST, I want to make those echoes speak. Living in Podgórze I can see a fragment of the of the old Ghetto Wall from my apartment window.
I live with my partner in Krakow, continuing to explore how ancient culture and cutting-edge technology can come together to produce experiences that are both timeless and visionary. Living in Podgórze I can see a fragment of the of the old Ghetto Wall from my apartment window. This project then is personal. It’s a mix of everything I’ve worked on – spatial sound, AI-driven storytelling, and immersive experiences. My work at MoMA on procedural narrative building taught me how sound can shape a story in real-time. Augmented Reality projects showed me how we can layer new dimensions over physical space.
MOST is where these ideas come together—turning Kraków into a living, breathing sound archive. Most means ‘bridge’ in Polish. This project is a bridge between the past and the present. Between what was lost and what can still be heard.
We wanted to tell the stories of pre-WW2 Jewish life in Kraków – the literature, the music, the progressive ideas that once flourished here. But instead of a museum exhibit, we’re embedding these stories into the city itself, using location-based audio and AI-driven soundscapes.
Using AI-driven procedural composition, MOST generates a unique soundscape that adapts in real-time. Walk through Kazimierz, and you’ll hear traces of lost voices, old Yiddish theatre, the hum of a vanished world. It’s not a soundtrack – it’s a living performance, shaped by movement, weather, and time of day.
This isn’t a gallery installation. It’s not a headset experience. It’s embedded in the real world, in the places where these stories happened. I want people to feel like they’ve stepped inside history not as passive listeners, but as part of something alive. Kraków doesn’t need another history lesson. It needs something that feels real, immediate, and impossible to ignore. With MOST, we’re trying to build exactly that
Andrew Melchior
If you would like to experience this special walk in Kazimierz, please download ECHOES application available on this website Once you have it installed on your mobile device, search for the project titled Isaac’s Kazimierz Journey, put your headphones on and … follow Isaac.