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Sound walk
SWS25 2024

and let no one be forgotten!

Three houses in Berlin stand as silent witnesses to the shifting tides of history. This audiowalk asks: what (and who) remains after empires fall?

Walking piece
Marŝarto24 2024

Libations

Drawing on an old local folk-tale that contains remnants of ritual, Libations was a 30-day project involving listening to the land and multi-species others, walking, and pouring a libation of water as an offering each day.

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International Symposium “Walking Practices: art, social action and oral history”

Memoriam Walking Festival
2022-07-10 06:30
Lefkada, Ελλάδα

In cooperation with Department of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Western Macedonia. With support of Columbia University (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative)

Featured SWS24 09 Dec, 2024

Brompton Cemetery Sound and Stories

With The Living and Tender Flesh, Laura Khan Mitchison created a sound walk set in London's Brompton Cemetery, and with this, she continues her collection of interventions connected to where the dead reside.

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Memoriam Walking Festival

Memoriam Walking Festival
8 - 18 Jul, 2022
Lefkada, Ελλάδα

From the 8th to the 18th of July 2022, visual works, narratives, soundscapes, musical compositions will be presented on the topic of the oral history of the island of Lefkada, Greece and the meaning of the place in general.

Sound walk
SWS24 2024

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

A Radio Walk at the Imperial War Museum, London.

Sound walk
SWS21 2021

Come Sunday

Come Sunday is a soundwalk created by jazz artist Darrell Grant that explores Portland’s inner-northeast neighborhoods, once home to over 200 Black churches. The route connects thirteen historic Black houses of worship, including Bethel A.M.E. Church, blending oral history, spirituals, poetry, and music to reflect the community's cultural and historical significance.

Sound walk
SWS20 2020

A Meeting Place | 会议地点

This soundwalk uses oral histories and 360-degree binaural audio to explore the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art’s archive, highlighting migrant experiences and cultural memories in Manchester’s Chinatown. By triggering geolocated sounds and interview clips via GPS, listeners can immerse themselves in the area’s hidden histories through their smartphones and headphones.

Sound walk
SWS22 2022

Chorlton Oral History Soundwalk

Commissioned by North West Sound Heritage, sound artist Hayley Suviste created a geo-locative sound walk on Sonic Maps, using interviews from The Manchester Studies unit's extensive oral history project from the 1970s.

Walking piece
2018

Douglastown Detour

The Douglastown Detour is a GPS-based mobile app that delivers oral histories, music, sounds, and images tied to specific sites in Douglastown, a historic Irish village in francophone Gaspésie, Quebec. It explores the memories and significance of the village’s past through location-triggered storytelling.

Sound walk
SWS23 2023

Decolonising Green Spaces – A Radio Walk in the Chilterns, with Dr Geeta Ludhra.

Radio Walks podcast.

Walking piece
2015

Memento – Wanstead

Memento – Wanstead Park, uses oral history recordings made by Olivia Bellas, to piece together an identity for a public space fused with personal recollection and a nod to the future. Local voices gently guide you around the park and into their own memories. The concept is different to previous memento sound walks with no

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Walking pieces

Sound walk
SWS22 2021

Dulverton Heritage Audio Trails

Voices of Dulverton; an audio trail comprising of interviews from elderly residents and their early memories of Exmoor. Curated by Christopher Jelley from recordings and interviews by Birdie Johnson recorded around the turn of the millennium.

Sound walk
SWS19 2018

Mott Haven Oral History Soundwalk

Walks take place by appointment in pairs, with both participants required to be Mott Haven residents. Guided by a project participant, walkers listen to curated oral histories via headphones while exploring Mott Haven, followed by a shared meal and discussion.

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Radical Stroud 85

Oral History and Walking

ONE: DISCOVERY An invitation to participate in a seminar held by the Oral History Society in September 2017, based on some work from thirteen or so years before, got me thinking about oral history and differing walking practices. Obviously, many peopl...

Stuart Charles Butler

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SLQS Studio

SLQ Studio is a digital platform dedicated to documenting and exploring Queensland’s cultural heritage through a combination of archival materials, oral histories, and visual arts. It serves as a repository and creative space that highlights the diversity of Queensland’s communities, focusing on stories and artworks that reflect the region's social and historical landscapes. The studio emphasizes community engagement, featuring collaborations with local artists, historians, and cultural organizations to preserve and present multifaceted narratives. The website showcases various projects that intersect art, history, and place, often employing multimedia elements such as video interviews, photographic collections, and interactive exhibitions. By prioritizing place-based storytelling, SLQ Studio contributes to a deeper understanding of Queensland’s cultural geography, illuminating how local identities and environments have been shaped and expressed over time. This platform positions itself as a resource for researchers, educators, and the public interested in the arts and cultural histories of Queensland.
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A footstep: I widna geng a fitstramp owre da door efter her.

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