Walking Pieces: Site-specific

Bingara Soundtrail (2016)

Walking piece - Soundtrails (The Story Project)

Bingara NSW, Australia
Multiple locations
75'

Bingara is a small township on the Gwydir River. It lies geographically in the centre of the northern inland, North-West region of New South Wales and is renowned for its mountains, river and rich farming land. The Kamilaroi made the area their own, naming it ‘Bingara’ meaning ‘shallow crossing’, and the town today sits where […]


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Caminhada Magnética (2019)

Walking piece - bella

Multiple locations

A “caminhada magnética” propõe a exploração da escuta de ondas inaudíveis de maneira coletiva no espaço urbano, através do uso de alguns captadores e transmissores de rádio desenvolvidos por bella. A escuta é realizada em pares de modo que o movimento de um, afetará na escuta do outro e vice-versa. Propõe-se a exploração da escuta […]


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Chantry and Calder (2019)

Walking piece - Created for Index festival (indexfestival.org)

Calder Vale Road, Wakefield, UK
Multiple locations

A geolocative soundwalk inspired by the 14th-century Chantry Chapel of St Mary on Wakefield’s medieval bridge, the banks of the river Calder and the painter JMW Turner’s 1798 watercolour study of the same spot. Using your smartphone and the free app Echoes, experience your surroundings in a new way as you explore the bridge, admire […]


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Cut & Fade (2019)

Walking piece - SOUNDkitchen

Bearwood Road, Smethwick, UK
Multiple locations
60'

A series of sonic portraits that capture the activity and everyday conversations of clients and staff tending to their hair and beauty routines. Immerse yourselves in the sounds of the salons while gaining glimpses into the lives of this community. Cut & Fade was commissioned by Multistory for BLAST! Festival of photography, walks and talks. […]


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Dockers – voices from the hidden history of the Thames (2005)

Walking piece - Toby Butler

Olympian Way, Greenwich, London, UK
120'

This memoryscape explores the hidden history of London’s docks, once the busiest docks in the world. The picture postcard, tourist views of Greenwich are quickly left behind to explore the strange quaysides and deserted industrial landscape of the Greenwich peninsula. The walk is narrated by the people who used to work in the docks and […]


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Douglastown Detour Audiotour (2018)

Walking piece - Douglastown Community Centre

Multiple locations
30'

This piece is a collage of field recordings and stories of the history of a unique village on the gaspé coast of Quebec. Living memories are recounted of a dramatically different era, two generations past. The listener is directed along a path through the central sites of the town, viewing the present places while listening […]


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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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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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