Each year, the Online Jury reviews the submissions for the Sound Walk September, and collectively builds the shortlist. Then, the Grand Jury takes a deep dive, to pick the winners and honourable mentions.
Prior to 2022, the SWS shortlist was put together by the founders of walk · listen · create, with the SWS Advisory Board selecting the winners and honourable mentions. In 2022, we introduced an Online Jury, while the Advisory Board was transformed into the SWS Grand Jury.
Grand Jury members have a maximum tenure of three years.
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Award winner SWS Grand Jury 2024
Since 1990 Stefaan van Biesen has made walks which he documents and displays in drawings, installations, photography, models, texts, videos and photographs. He regards the act of walking as a kind of subjective thought process in the urban and natural land...
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Shakuhachi player, composer, and teacher.
SWS Grand Jury 2024
Laonikos Psimikakis Chalkokondylis is a shakuhachi player based in London. He performed with Sam Lee as part of Singing with Nightingales in May 2023, his album ‘loess’ was released in 2022 by Slow Tone Collages, a collection of long, slow improvisatio...
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A storyteller exploring hidden narratives through sound (Australia)
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I'm an Australian-based interdisciplinary artist whose creative output uses sound, video, and writing to explore layers of nuance and complexity within the rural and regional territories in which I work. I'm listening for new voices and perspecti...
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walking-with, uncomfortable presence, social justice
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UK based walking and multimedia artist/researcher
Richard White devises, curates and hosts walks involving listening, sensing, making and asking questions. His participatory performative practice, Walknow, explores accountability and seeks to develop resp...
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(United States)
SWS Grand Jury 2024
Hi! I am Henna Wang, an art historian and sociologist deeply interested in human creativity and connection. My work across the arts and international development sectors have prepped me for my most important role yet: as Co-founder and Co-CEO of Gesso. Ges...
writer, producer, founder of the audio walk platform Storydive (Germany)
SWS Grand Jury 2024
I am a writer, dramaturge and the founder of the audio walk platform Storydive. With 15 years of experience in realising audio walks and other site-specific formats in the cultural and educational sector, I create my own productions as well as commissioned...
