Walking Pieces

Touching Sound

Dawn Matheson and Olivia Brouwer

Partnering with the Canadian National Instate for the Blind and supported by the Ontario Arts Council, Touching Sound is a sensory-led nature walk and workshop that was available for individuals with sight loss. Social practice and sound artist, Dawn Matheson, along with Olivia Brouwer, a partially-blind artist, led the work. The workshop involved the creation of sound-activated mixed media sculptures based on recordings and sensory activities while walking in nature at the Guelph Arboretum. Mobiles created from the workshop were also temporarily exhibited at the Guelph Civic Museum from July-August 2023. A second workshop will be held in Waterloo, Ontario on Saturday, May 25th, 2024 from 1-3pm at the Walter Bean Grand River Trail and Waterloo Public Library Eastside Branch. The exhibition will be held at The Button Factory from June to July 2024.

Weeds are Community

A sound walk created for the Streets of Frome, Somerset, England, which explores the parallel between plants and people: fragility, resilience and determination.

Terminalia from there to here

tracking a walk across the Downs on this day celebrated since Roman times, the feast of Terminalia, god of limitations and obstacles .

Rooms

Rooms soundwalk with sound objects installation (2024) Artist: Daria Baiocchi Sound objects construction and manufacturing: Daria Baiocchi Sound objects with audio files (n.6): max one minute in loop Audio files: Daria Baiocchi Year: 2024 City: Ascoli Piceno-Italy Technical riders: 6 stands Performers in audio files: -M°Tiago Coimbra: principal oboe in Gottingen Symphony Orchestra; -M°Henry Domenico Durante: pricipal violin in G.Rossini Symbphonic Orchestra; -M°Francesco Maria Ferrario: composer and director; Audio file recordings: 1. natural birds sounds; 2. street performers in Chicago 3. Milan tube 4. Milan train station 5. London train Soundwalk duration: 1 hour Soundwalk leitmotiv: water through fountains Soundwalk objects installation concept: find your audio moment in your present life. The main area of each sound object is refferred to nature moment, methaphisic moment, ascetic moment, abstract moment, medidative moment, journey moment. End of the tour: pick your sound card moment Development possibilities: people are invited in the future to follow another soundwalk tour with a different general sound leitmotive. They will listen to the same sound objects installation and they will understand if their “personal sound moment” has changed. The audience will pick (maybe) another sound card and will remember their “old” sound moment. The main purpose of it is to fix the present and to learn its development.

Bridging History

The Bridging History series tells the tale of the colonisation and settlement of Dubbo, on Wiradjuri Country in Central West NSW Australia, through built infrastructure that changed the Wambuul Macquarie River forever. The bridges cross water and land with a much older story to tell. Today, you can cross all three bridge sites by walking, running or cycling the Tracker Riley Cycleway that loops around the river.

Walking in the time of coronavirus: a walk from Queen’s Park to Ladbroke Grove Sainsbury’s

The Walking Man

Walk the Cloud

A series of parallel walks exploring the way from seclusion and destruction to playful movement and exchange under the open sky.

A City Full of Stories

Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Royal Academy of Music's Open Academy department, The Connection at St Martin's

A City Full of Stories is a digital SoundWalk created by those experiencing homelessness in London and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. It lasts 25 minutes, blending words and music to imagine the stories of the streets and buildings.

In Search of Lost Venues

In Search of Lost Venues captures the vibrant confluence of community and space over the history of Vancouver music by walking to lost venues with musicians who played there.

The Graveyard Digression

What can a cemetery teach us? The Graveyard Digression asks this question, and many more, in an aprox. 30 min. sound journey passing through St. Pauli Southern Cemetery, Malmö. A sonic essay consisting of field recordings, music, poems and anecdotes.

The Jewish Hungarian Experience of The Holocaust – A Radio Walk with John Hajdu

A Radio Walk at the Imperial War Museum, London.