Walking Pieces: Listening

DIY Primer for Soundwalking (2017)

Walking piece - John Levack Drever

Listen! Don’t feel you are being forced to unnaturally suppress your other senses – just have a go at temporarily prioritising your sense of hearing. DIY Primer for Soundwalking Primary Instruction: Listen! Don’t feel you are being forced to unnaturally supress your other senses – just have a go at temporarily prioritising your sense of […]


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DIY Soundwalks (2008)

Walking piece - Stephanie Loveless and Brady Marks

Created by Stephanie Loveless and Brady Marks for the 2008 Vacouver New Music festival, the DIY Soundwalk website is designed to incite sonic explorations wherever a person happens to be, and at whatever time. Interested parties are led to a webpage where they receive a soundwalk generated — in the moment of their clicking — […]


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Emotional Geographies (2019)

Walking piece - Zoe Balasch

Carrer del Dr. Joan Mercader, 1, 08700 Igualada, Barcelona, Spanien
120'

EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES TOUR: MOVEMENT, BODY, MEMORY & PLACE Igualada is the capital of Anoia county. The Rec of Igualada is one of the most important industrial neighborhoods in Catalonia. During the last decades, the decline of the textile and leather industries have left an incredibly valuable heritage partially abandoned. Engaged citizens have fought for its protection […]


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Entangled Formation (2019)

Walking piece - Prague Quadrenniale 2019

Stromovka, Prague 7-Bubeneč, Tsjekkia
Multiple locations

Entangled Formations, a site-relational sound-walk, weaves together stories and movements of non-human inhabitants of Prague, entangling local, migratory, and visiting birds in a sonorous world that the audience can listen in on and delve into. Poetic reflections and facts on birds’ complex songs, lives and cognizance intermingle with extensive field recordings from Prague and interviews […]


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Entangled in the Mesh (2018)

Walking piece - Vitenparken Campus Ås

Ås, Norge
Multiple locations

Entangled in the Mesh is a geolocative soundwalk through Campus Ås, Norway and beyond. Accompanied by deadwood sculptures placed around the Campus Park of the University of Life Sciences at Ås. How to experience the work: Download Locosonic app for free Put on GPS on your smartphone Be present at Campus Ås select all soundscapes […]


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Fiesole Urbana Ascolta (Listening Urban Fiesole) (2019)

Walking piece - Elisabetta Senesi

Fiesole, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy
Multiple locations
90'

The piece is a silent urban listening walk I will lead for a group of 15 people maximum in the ancient streets of Fiesole up the hill of Florence in Italy where I live and operate. The route includes outdoor public spaces such as hilly gardens, small squares, tiny streets, indoor areas such as the […]


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Fleet Footing (2019)

Walking piece - Sarah Grange & Catherine Kontz

Hampstead Heath, London, UK
Multiple locations

A bold new work combining music and interactive performance in an exploration of London’s lost river, Fleet Footing is a music walk charting a course along the path of the River Fleet through live, interactive and recorded materials. Having flowed through history as a site for religion, trade, medicine and scandal, the Fleet was gradually […]


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Four Bridges (2018)

Walking piece - Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA

15400 Montalvo Rd, Saratoga, CA 95070, USA
Multiple locations
26'

Howard Hersh’s “Four Bridges” is a sound installation that was commissioned by the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California.. It is designed to be heard by listeners over mobile devices as they walk through Montalvo’s woodland environment. It features children’s choir, instrumental music, readings of poetry, and archival recordings. The walk, clearly marked by a […]


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Freedom Rides Moree Baths (2015)

Walking piece - Soundtrails (The Story Project)

Moree Artesian Baths, Moree NSW, Australia
Multiple locations
40'

Many country towns routinely banned Aboriginal people from a range of places – pubs and clubs, certain areas of town, shops, restaurants and swimming pools. What made Moree different was that the council had taken the trouble to formalise the discrimination in an ‘order’. Unlike other informal discrimination – which was harder to identify and […]


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