Walking Pieces: Serial

London Street Noises (2019)

Walking piece - Sound Practice Research, Goldsmiths, University of London

Beauchamp Place, London, UK
Multiple locations

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 […]


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Musicity x Culture Mile (2019)

Walking piece - Musicity Global

Barbican, Londres, Royaume-Uni
Multiple locations

*Free maps and VR headsets are available from the Barbican Centre shop* Musicity x Culture Mile has commissioned 10 tracks from a diverse selection of artists as well as 3 VR video-art pieces which highlight the sonic landscape across Culture Mile. Musicity works collaboratively across the disciplines of architecture, music, acoustic engineering and virtual reality […]


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Musicity x Low Line (2019)

Walking piece - Musicity Global

Southwark, Royaume-Uni
Multiple locations

*free leaflets with maps are available from Better Bankside, Team London Bridge and Blue Bermondsey offices* Musicity x Low Line has commissioned 15 tracks from a diverse selection of artists which highlight the sonic landscape along the mighty Victorian railway viaduct, spanning Bankside, London Bridge and Bermondsey. Musicity works collaboratively across the disciplines of architecture, […]


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Musicity x Sculpture in the City (2019)

Walking piece - Musicity Global

Cité de Londres, Londres, Royaume-Uni
Multiple locations

Musicity x Sculpture in the City has commissioned 11 tracks from a diverse selection of artists which highlight the sonic landscape across the City of London, from Aldgate to Shoreditch and from Leadenhall Market to St. Botolph’s-without-Bishopsgate. Musicity works collaboratively across the disciplines of architecture, music, acoustic engineering and virtual reality (VR) to lay out […]


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OpenCity Stuttgart (2016)

Walking piece - Andrew

Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart, Germany
Multiple locations
50'

This 2016 walk was composed by Andrew Brown in collaboration with Lise Olsen, Demi Hill and Emily Stollery, as part of the Spaces of Uncertainty Summer Academy that took place at the Württembergische Kunstverein in Stuttgart. It was inspired by the activism around the Stuttgart21 project, which turned the city into a vast construction site. […]


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The Cartographer’s Confession (2017)

Walking piece - James Attlee

London, UK
Multiple locations
240'

The Cartographer’s Confession is a geo-located app featuring a fictional story situated in London that unfolds as users walk around three different city locations. Further material is released as users travel between the three areas in London where the story takes place. It combines voice, video, prose, original 1940’s photographs of London, commissioned illustrations, 3D […]


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Underneath The Arches (2019)

Walking piece - Nick Sorensen

The Holburne Museum, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, UK
Multiple locations

Underneath The Arches is a soundwalk along the Kennett and Avon canal from The Holburne Museum, Bath to Avoncliff Aqueduct by saxophonist Nick Sorensen. He will perform an improvisation underneath the arches of the bridges, tunnels and aqueducts along the route, responding to the specific acoustics of each of the sites. The walk will commence […]


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Unseen (2019)

Walking piece - Adam Mickiewicz Institute / Culture.pl

Warsaw, Polska
Multiple locations

Unseen is an immersive soundwalk from Culture.pl which reimagines places which have been lost on the map of Warsaw. Each episode of Unseen tells a story about a place, first through introducing the space to the listener with a guide saying where to stand and what to look out for. Initially, listeners hear a binaural […]


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