Walking Pieces: geo-located

Bethnal Green Disaster Memorial Memoryscape (2015)

Walking piece - Toby Butler / Bethnal Green Memorial

Bethnal Green, London, UK
33'

This trail incorporates recordings of interviews with survivors of the disaster and complements information given at the new Bethnal Green Disaster Memorial in honouring the 173 men, women and children who died in the Bethnal Green underground shelter disaster of 3 March 1943. Produced by Lewis Gibson and project directed by Toby Butler. Updated: 1/3/19


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Bingara Soundtrail (2016)

Walking piece - Soundtrails (The Story Project)

Bingara NSW, Australia
Multiple locations
75'

Bingara is a small township on the Gwydir River. It lies geographically in the centre of the northern inland, North-West region of New South Wales and is renowned for its mountains, river and rich farming land. The Kamilaroi made the area their own, naming it ‘Bingara’ meaning ‘shallow crossing’, and the town today sits where […]


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Blind walk/White walk (2016)

Walking piece - Geert Vermeire

Athens, Greece
60'

Blind walk / White walk invites you to follow the steps of blind walkers, inspired by the novel Blindness of José Saramago and the blind prophet Tiresias in the poetry of Homer. This bilingual (Greek/English) walk in Athens combines sound immersion, triggered by your mobile device, with live performances – between the contemporary Theater Technis […]


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Britpop Camden (2016)

Walking piece - Miranda Diboll / VoiceMap

Pratt Street, London NW1 0AE, UK
80'

The Britpop Camden walk is an example of how GPS technology can be used to create an immersive audio experience which can be ‘pinned’ to specific locations. Join me on a nostalgia-fuelled jaunt around Britpop lalaland circa 1995. There is a modest charge for this walk. I had the honour of living and loving here […]


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Carnival Trail Companion (2014)

Walking piece - Richard White, Ali Pretty, & Adam Jansch

Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
120'

Launched in 2014 as headline event for the Isle of Wight Walking Festival, the Carnival Trail links all the Carnival Towns and Villages together in a single 100 mile route. It celebrates the Isle of Wight as the birthplace of the English carnival tradition, and promotes the 19 summer carnivals and 6 winter parades which […]


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Chantry and Calder (2019)

Walking piece - Created for Index festival (indexfestival.org)

Calder Vale Road, Wakefield, UK
Multiple locations

A geolocative soundwalk inspired by the 14th-century Chantry Chapel of St Mary on Wakefield’s medieval bridge, the banks of the river Calder and the painter JMW Turner’s 1798 watercolour study of the same spot. Using your smartphone and the free app Echoes, experience your surroundings in a new way as you explore the bridge, admire […]


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CONSENT-Walk the Walk (2019)

Walking piece - Battery Radio

St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Multiple locations

Geo-locative smartphone app based on a real sexual assault criminal trial, created to increase awareness of sexual assault issues. Users can experience it as a site-specific walk through downtown St. John’s, NL, Canada – or remotely via “armchair mode”. Free download from GooglePlay and Apple AppStore


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Continent Rouge (2014)

Walking piece - Geert Vermeire

Carcassonne, France

Continent Rouge by Gigacircus – 2015 Installation & locative app in collaboration with noTours Fruit d’un dialogue entre artistes Tarahumaras, Espagnols, Mexicains et Français, Continent Rouge est l’expression contemporaine d’une expérience transculturelle anthropologique, littéraire et artistique. Le temps d’une marche, Continent Rouge vous transporte au coeur du Mexique où résonne la voix d’Artaud et celle […]


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Cracks on the Soundwalk (2015)

Walking piece - Geert Vermeire

Gent, Belgium

A soundwalk blog will be constantly renewed with sounds recorded in Ghent during the International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research DARE 2015. These sounds will be combined and composed to an audio walk available for download by all conference participants. Each one is encouraged to contribute with sounds, soundscapes, narratives, stories and so on […]


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