two walks: the first starts at the market in Lisbon and continues through side streets, guided by sound trails, waiting for the specific sounds to fade or be transformed by the architecture. the second is a sequence of walks around Nodar village and key local elements: a mountain top ceremony and food production locations.
In 2010 Jez Riley French visited Prague again for a few days….the few days turned into a week due to volcanic ash closing the airspace over Europe….he walked around Prague sometimes recording, sometimes not….just walking & listening & looking – for his own pleasure….on the eventual long coach journey back to the UK he listened […]
‘Justice, Freedom, Peace, Memory‘ is an immersive composition that is ‘performed’ through the Echoes app on GPS enabled Smartphones. GPS technology allows the mapping of a composition over a landscape, so that the music is experienced within the context of a very specific geography. The music that is composed for this project is created primarily […]
An audio document completed out of hours of binaural sound-recordings that were made during a 9 days journey through the Catalan countryside (Spain) walking from Puigcerdà to the sanctuary “El Miracle” near Solsona. A group of artists hiked all through the Catalan Pyrenees and the national park Cadì-Moixerò, visiting other artists who live there. They […]
You are going to be lost with your eyes closed for a long period of time. Gloves are recommended. A friend, who acts as a safety monitor, takes you to an unknown location. You might travel with your eyes closed, and perhaps they’ll take you there by a somewhat misleading route, so that you arrive quite […]
This is a shared walk around Berlin Alexanderplatz, from 8 am – 8.30 am on september 1, 2019 We will listen to the Sounds of the City while walking in silence and focus on the experience of space emerging from sound and resonance. We will make a soundrecording of the walk and share this afterwards […]
A Culture Days Soundwalk Vancouver’s Cambie Street bisects through the centre of our city, weaving together various facets of daily urban life, while also mirroring similar development pressures in our Regional District and elsewhere. The City of Vancouver acknowledges the importance of the Cambie Corridor as a significant aspect of a sustainable, livable city comprised […]
A web-app for mindful listening delivering written instructions that encourage creative engagement with the sounds around you, inspired by input from people who live in, work in, or visit Albany, NY. Use this link https://demo.listeninghere.org/, to gain access to the demo version of the app which works outside of Albany, NY. This project is on-going so […]
Listening to Abu Dhabi maps soundscape compositions along the Abu Dhabi Corniche. It transports listeners through the past to the future, imagining changing soundscapes to explore how our relationship to the city will change as sea levels and temperatures rise in the future. This piece was developed for Keira Simmons’ Capstone Thesis Project at New […]
In September of 1928 five locations across central London were recorded by a team from Columbia Records led by Commander Daniel and supported by the Daily Mail. The project was prompted by a pressing concern for the impact on health and wellbeing from traffic noise. As well as traffic sounds of the day accompanied by […]
