Walking Pieces: Listening

Utopia (2016)

Walking piece - Geert Vermeire

Frome, UK
Multiple locations

Utopia – [just around the corner?] A drift for dancers and silent walkers with Geert Vermeire. A silent walk in series of walks since 2016,  during Sound Walk Sunday 2019 – at  LISTEN, A Season of Sound Art, Frome – September 1st, 2019. Dancers move around – in silence- through the city, with no other […]


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Vergehen (Passing) – opera that you walk (2017)

Walking piece - Mathis Nitschke

München, Germany
Multiple locations
20'

Imagine that you take a walk at the river Isar in Munich. Your smartphone starts a conversation, involving you in a discourse about memories and the past. How would that sound? It’s almost a pact: the smartphone lets us participate in the seemingly endless treasures of information and knowledge, all from a small personal companion. […]


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Virtual Busking (2018)

Walking piece - Lindsborg's Makers Street

Lindsborg, KS, USA
Multiple locations

In August 2018, visitors to the monthly Makers Street Art Walk enjoyed musicians and other street performers, or buskers. One of many stops along Main Street allowed visitors to try their hand at virtual instruments. Among them were electronic drums, guitars, marimba and clarinets. “Virtual Busking” maps these sounds over four blocks of Main Street, […]


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Walk & Play YSP! (2017)

Walking piece - Rachel Massey

Wakefield, UK
90'

Resident artists Idit Nathan and Helen Stratford invite you to join them to explore Yorkshire Sculpture Park through walking and playing. This interactive journey will help you experience and engage with the Park in fresh, imaginative and even mischievous ways. The ‘walkshops’ will inform the creation of a new mobile artwork that we’ll launch in […]


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Walk Through Campina Grande Central Fair (2019)

Walking piece - Orlando Freitas

Campina Grande, PB, Brasil
Multiple locations
6'

The soundtrack called Walk Through Campina Grande Central Fair is a brief but intense soundscape that makes us dive into the daily life of Campina Grande Central Market in the Brazilian state of Paraíba. Market is recognized in 2017 by the Institute of Heritage National Historical and Artistic Heritage (Iphan) as Brazilian Intangible Cultural Heritage. […]


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Walk with Jane on the Cambridge Estate (2019)

Walking piece - Alison Fure

Kingston upon Thames KT1 3EZ, UK
Multiple locations
90'

This Soundwalk will explore the wildlife and human ecology on this large estate with 230 trees. We will listen to the web of life from replayed recordings of bird song, talking heads and listen to bats in real time (bat detection equipment provided). This event is free but booking is essential – Call +44 (0) […]


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Walkie Talkie Dream Angles (2016)

Walking piece - Dafna Naphtali

Washington Square Park, New York, NY, USA
Multiple locations
30'

Walkie Talkie Dream Angles is an electroacoustic composition and interactive sound walk for Washington Square Park by Dafna Naphtali — traversing sonically interesting corners of the park to underscore the loss of quiet, past and future sounds, bringing a favorite urban environment to life, in a sonically unique and individual way. Processed pre-recorded environmental sounds […]


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Walkie Talkie Dream Garden (2018)

Walking piece - Dafna Naphtali

Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Multiple locations
50'

Walkie Talkie Dream Garden is an interactive soundwalk for the waterfront areas in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and Hamburg (Germany) developed by sound artist and composer Dafna Naphtali. Since launching in 2018 and for the foreseeable future, anyone can download the app to experience the walk 24/7 exclusively on-site in Williamsburg and Hamburg. Walk, run, ride or […]


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Walking the Treme (2016)

Walking piece - VoiceMap app

New Orleans, LA, USA
60'

Two hundred years before the HBO television series made Tremé an emblem of the cultural richness of New Orleans, the residents of this faubourg drummed, danced, and second lined their way into history. Tremé, touted as the oldest African American neighborhood in the United States as well as the birthplace of jazz, boasts a history […]


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Walking with Ghosts (2008)

Walking piece - No

Multiple locations
24'

‘Walking with Ghosts’ is a sound reverie inspired by a ‘landscape text’ exploring relationships between walking, memory and landscape. It owes its existence and its form to Carl Lavery’s landscape text ‘Mourning Walk’. It can be listened to in a quiet environment as an audio work in its own right – as a piece of […]


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