Month: June 2022
BBC Radio 3 – The Listening Service, The Music of Sound
Tom Service on the mutually creative relationship between music and its surroundings – fascinating exploration of sound, perhaps too focussed on the architectural man-made with too little on the environment – yet worth a listen. Source: BBC Radio 3 – The Listening Service, The Music of Sound
Der Tanz mit dem Stelzenmann – Ein Audiowalk en miniature
„Auf dem Karneval der Kulturen war ein Stelzenmann unterwegs. Und der kam zu mir und hat mit mir getanzt. “ Alma und Zoe sind mit einem Mikrofon im Bergmann-Kiez unterwegs und sammeln Geschichten über das Leben hier im Viertel. Ihre Interviewpartnerin, eine zugereiste Chemnitzerin, fügt noch hinzu: „Er hat so viel Freude ausgestrahlt und ich …
Sharing the City One Step at a Time | Landscape Architecture Magazine
Activists, wanderers, and tourists find a common language through walking. By Tim Waterman Matthew Beaumont’s beautiful book about London, Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London, begins with a… Source: Sharing the City One Step at a Time | Landscape Architecture Magazine
Stories Behind the Walls: A snapshot of street art in Brooklyn
The street art scene in Brooklyn gets seemingly bigger every day. One can’t walk down a street in Williamsburg without running into a mural or a spray-painted storefront around a different corner. But street art here has evolved a lot in the past few years as it has been popularized and commodified, and new artists
What the past tells us about our future
REGIONAL FUTURES RESIDENCY: WELLINGTON CAVES NSW On my final Regional Futures residency weekend at Wellington Caves, I made the focus on my explorations the site itself and people who know the caves and surrounding landscape intimately. These caves pro...
A step in New York/A footfall in Lahore
I lived for a decade in Chicago, where I could only walk in the Midway Plaisance—a wide boulevard with a fat-bellied, grassy middle—in Hyde Park. The 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition was held in Hyde Park and the Plaisance was a covered walk with concessions and private entertainment decked around it: markets from Algeria and Tunis, an ‘Indian’ village, an Oriental (Chinese) village and theatre, an Indian bazaar, a Moorish palace, a street in Cairo. The official guidebook told the white ‘walkers’ that they should expect to bump into an ‘Indian’ family making their bread or a Pathan sepoy waxing his moustache. Franz Boas, later to lead Columbia’s anthropology department, was the main force behind the 1893 Chicago Fair and had been hired by Frederic Putnam, then director of Harvard University’s Peabody Museum.… Continue reading A step in New York/A footfall in Lahore →
Walking the Newsroom: Towards a Sensory Experience of Journalism | JAR
We invite you to join us on a walk through the newsroom of a regional newspaper, Dagblad van het Noorden. We trace how the journalists perceive, articulate, engage, embrace, challenge, are receptive to, and give form to the ‘atmospheres’ of their workspace. The concept of atmospheres is central in how we have looked at the
Releasing our open-source audio orchestration toolkit – BBC R&D
BBC R&D are now making the code underlying their orchestrated audio experiences available as open-source software – Audio Orchestrator allows you to synchronise several audio devices into a connected system for immersive and interactive sound. Who will be walk listen create’s first sound walk composer to try it for themselves?. Source: Releasing our open-source audio
Australia’s stunning ‘Songline’ digital exhibit lights up KL’s National Art Gallery | The Star
‘Walking Through A Songline’ invites visitors at KL’s National Art Gallery to enter a space of immersive light projections that create a representation of a songline Source: Australia’s stunning ‘Songline’ digital exhibit lights up KL’s National Art Gallery | The Star
Well with Nature – 2022 photo competition — European Environment Agency
The European Environment Agency (EEA) invites you to capture the benefits of nature to your health and well-being. Immerse yourself in nature, take a photo of the moment, and share it with us. Improbable thought it may seem, however, there is a category for images of sound….. Source: Well with Nature – 2022 photo competition
Call for Choreographers and Dance Films!
Hola Choreographers & Alumni of the Online Choreographic Mentorship Program, I am writing to you with a special invitation to participate in an Online Festival. I am planning to host a Virtual Festival of video dance works on Friday, November 18, & Sunday, November 20, (via Zoom Webinar). It’s Free for you to participate, and […]
Giant puppet tours England to mark World Refugee Week | Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter
Little Amal represents millions of displaced refugee children separated from their families. Source: Giant puppet tours England to mark World Refugee Week | Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter
Wilkes University launches audio walking tour, retrospective on Agnes | Times Leader
WILKES-BARRE — With a campus that runs right up against the Susquehanna River Levee, Wilkes University suffered substantial damage when the Agnes flood struck in 1972. Recovery costs were in the… Source: Wilkes University launches audio walking tour, retrospective on Agnes | Times Leader
