Forest Talk Radio

Walking at an ant’s pace

7 Dec, 2023

David Merleau created an interactive storytelling audio walking app, offering a day-in-the-life experience of various types of ants. During walks, users hear stories that adapt to their environment, creating an innovative "pace-based" interactive experience. This project allowed Merleau to connect with his peers and find purpose during COVID lockdowns.

The mycelial web, developed hundreds of millions of years ago, now on your cellphone

4 Mar, 2020

Forest Talk Radio: Old Growth

Temagami, ON, Canada

Nature is the hacker par excellence

6 Dec, 2021

SWS Award alumni David Merleau invites you to collaborate on his next project.

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.

AntVenture: The Only Choose Your Own Adventure user-site-specific storytelling walking app

AntVenture is an interactive storytelling audio walking app that gives you the inside scoop about what ants think of humans.

Antventure

2024-03-22 10:30

Garagem Avenida EAAD, Avenida Dom Afonso Henriques, Guimaraes, Portugal

Antventure is an interactive storytelling app that brings everyone the inside story of how the ants beneath their feet understand the world around them. When walking, the participant experiences the daily lives of four different types of common ants.

Forest Talk Radio: Under Your Favourite Tree

David Merleau

5 - 30 Sep, 2020

Under your favorite tree

A leap into the sonic future: Taking stock of the possibilities of locative audio for drama – and drama for locative audio

2020-09-08 18:00

Online

These days it is possible to locate any form of media pretty much anywhere on the planet which has a GPS signal. The whole world is up for grabs as a readymade stage set. Changing the soundtrack to the ‘movie of our lives’ changes everything.

Walk the Cloud

Naxos, Naxos and Lesser Cyclades, Greece

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

St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, UK

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.

BBC WorldService | Water Walks

23 Apr, 2024