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 […]
There are several ‘clouds’ seeded with the sounds and oral histories of Old Frome hovering over locations scattered in and around the centre of Frome, Somerset as part of the LISTEN Summer of Sound Art. To access these ‘soundclouds’ or ‘soundpools’ you need to download the SatsymphQR app to your smartphone (Android & iPhone), go […]
The Goonoowigall Soundtrail is a geo locative audio experience coming to you from Jukembal land as part of the Kamilaroi nation. This is a living audio portrait of the Aboriginal people who lived here, just out of Inverell, from the 1940s to the 70s. ‘Goonoowigall’ means place of wallaby, but back then it was referred […]
Grand Tour is a 250 km three week walk performed by artists of all disciplines. In 2019 Grand Tour goes from the Ebro River Delta to the city of Lleida. The journey starts on august 14th and ends on september 1rst, the day of the world soundwalk. This day walkers will take a train back […]
self-performance audio-guide with 11 tracks for the land, the meadows, hills and paths behind the Meakusma Festival site at Kulturzentrum Alter Schlachthof in Eupen (Belgium) The headphones of this piece are the friend that takes you by the hand for a really personal trip into the wilderness. They are your treat and trick while you […]
Walks happen by appointment in pairs and both people must be Mott Haven residents. Each walk is guided by a participant in this project. Together, the guide and the other walker listen on headphones to an edited selection of oral histories as they walk through Mott Haven. They hear stories from the 1930s to the […]
‘The path to the future passes through the past.’ In 1838 at Myall Creek, shed blood went into the ground and cried out for justice. Just this once, justice was done. Just this once there was a linking of hearts, from the Governor of the day to the convict who refused to participate: a shaft […]
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. […]
What if the focus of urban living was not productivity but play? Place Listening explores how playful urban listening can expand the relationships between people and the places they inhabit. We live in a time where efficiency is favoured over play: roads are for circulation not interaction; places are designed around consumption not co-existence; we […]
To mark the bicentenary of the ill-fated Pentrich revolt sound artist Andrew Brown composed three soundwalks, each a creative response to the events of June 1817. Fellow artists collaborating on the project include Leigh Toro, Agnes Williams, Benedik Williams, Alasdair Thurston-Ambrose and Harry Freestone.
