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Walking piece
2008

Harker Herald

In 2008, Mike Collier created a billboard for Waygood Studios, Newcastle, using Northumbrian bird names he observed on walks in the Coquet Valley. The work, shown alongside a small gallery installation, links local language, landscape, and walking practice.

Walking piece
Marŝarto24 2024

PostRhetoric: (A) Discourse on Splintered Wood and Rusted Nails

This video explores the various surfaces of a rhetorical walk to -- inscribing the road with feet and posting signage systems with tape and staples -- all to find a lost cat.

Happened
 

Merri Merri Creek Walk #2: Bird Walk

2021-04-18 07:00
Egan Reserve, near 143 Rennie St, Coburg VIC 3058, Australia

How does the world sound to a bird? Equipped with some information about avian hearing, we’ll walk along the Merri Merri Creek and try to imagine this other-species reality.

Featured SWS21 15 Nov, 2021

Only when you don’t see them

Tamsin Grainger tells us that every 2 minutes, 2 pairs of breeding birds disappear from the UK. Her installation piece No Birds Land highlights this, and more.

Featured SWS19 22 Jan, 2020

“Bird language is key to understanding all other animal languages”

Anne Cecilie Caroline Brunborg Lie was one of the two winners of last year's Sound Walk September 2019, with her piece Entangled Formation, set in Prague. Here, Anne talks about her work.

Sound walk
SWS24 2024

Untitled | Red Braids

“Untitled | Red Braids” by artist Renée LoBue is an introspective exploration of the digital personas we craft in the age of social media. This audiovisual installation, featuring a fantasy self-portrait paired with a thought-provoking audio narrative, examines the fine line between authenticity and illusion. Through the striking imagery of red braids and a reflective soundscape, LoBue invites audiences to question the curated realities we present online and their effect on our true selves and relationships.

Sound walk
SWS21 2021

Coombadjha Walk – Washpool National Park

A soundtrail that takes the listener through the rich and diverse history of this ancient rainforest which is now World Heritage protected.

Sound walk
SWS21 2021

No Birds Land

A sound/art installation in the Trinity Tunnel of the Edinburgh cycle path network, Scotland.

Sound walk
2017

fruit’s circle

An excerpt from a soundwalk over the fields around Saluzzo (Italy) in the fruits’ plantations, walking and playing with bees and birds.

Sound walk
SWS21 2021

Bellevue Botanical Garden “Sound Walk”

The post describes a return visit to a walking area featuring new signage and gravel, with early spring flowers including jasmine and daffodils. It also details a sound walk recording ambient sounds such as birds, frogs, walking on different surfaces, and nearby road noise.

Sound walk
2019

Pickwick Mill Day Soundwalk

This soundwalk was recorded at Pickwick Mill Day on September 14, 2019, from 11:39 to 11:51 am in Pickwick, Minnesota. The audio captures local festival sounds including steam-engine devices, vehicle traffic, crowd noise, birds, a waterfall, a bluegrass band, and insects.

Sound walk
SWS23 2023

Walking the Burn of Vaara

A walk from loch to loch along the Burn of Vaara, Clousta, Shetland

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Walking pieces

Sound walk
SWS24 2024

Portland Dawn Quarry Walk

A dawn chorus walk from Ranters Lodge along coastal paths beside Chesil Beach, to and around Tout Quarry Sculpture Park and Nature Reserve on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. Sounds of the sea below the cliffs and bird life encountered in the quarry.

Sound walk
SWS21 2021

Walk With Me

Talking Birds offers digital versions of its actor-led Walk With Me walking tours exploring historic Coventry neighbourhoods. Current trails include Walk With Me #1 in Spon End, #2 in Stoke, and #4 from Naul’s Mill Park along Coventry Canal to the Nest.

Sound walk
SWS21 2021

Soundwalk at the park

This is the sound recording of a walk at Pedra Azul State Park in Espirito Santo, Brazil. It’s a very special soundwalk because it emphasizes the interaction between human activity and birds.

Articles on WLC

Curated news 09 May, 2021

BBC Arts – New Creatives, Songs of the City

Celebrating urban bird song, a blackbird finds its voice in the streets of Manchester. 4 mins Source: BBC Arts – New Creatives, Songs of the City

Articles elsewhere

Ellen Mueller 30

Bio Blitz at Grass Lake a Success!

June 6, 2026 Bio Blitz at Grass Lake Wetland A great time was had by all who participated in the first ever Bio Blitz at Grass Lake Wetland on Saturday, June 6, 2026. With coffee and donut holes to fuel these eager nature enthusiasts, Rachel Klimpton and Laura Baxley explained how to use the iNaturalist app to […]

Ellen Mueller
ALL BLOG POSTS - ... 45

Shadows and Reflections

I am delighted that my essay, Shadows and Reflections was published by Caught by the River in January 2023'I imagine plotting this puddle’s soundings on cloth like Bartholomew used to, shading it in increasingly intense variations of baby-blue, cerulean-blue, & lapis lazuli.' @WalkNoDonkey reflects on 2022 from in amongst Edinburgh's mist, clematis and waders. @tweetbytheriver on twitter ““This piece on loss and anger by @WalkNoDonkey is beautiful. I’m drenched in the sadness she feels on seeing trees ripped from the earth, beloved birds almost gone from the water’s edge, and that twinge of hope on glimpsing them again.” ” — Sarah Jane Butler @SarahLooseLeaf

Tamsin Grainger
Walking without a... 95

No Birds Land – One Year On

Sound Walk and Art Installation, September 2021-September 2022 Sound Walk September, a global festival, has come round again and I am minded to reflect on the year that No Birds Land has been in the Trinty Tunnel on the Edinburgh cycle paths. Here is last year’s blog with all the details about location, transcript and … Continue reading No Birds Land – One Year On

Tamsin Grainger
POINTS D'OU... 40

Point d’ouïe subjectivement avifaune

Je ne connais que couic, cui-couic aux zaffaires zoizelières, à leurs ramages, plumages et autres fromages… Guère plus en leurs chants syrinxées, pépillages et bavardages compris… Certes, je reconnais parfois une pie criarde, un pigeon roucouleur, un martinet strideur, une chouette hululante, guère plus. Je les repère de l’oreille, comme d’incontournables narrateurs, du platane urbain … Continuer à lire ... "Point d’ouïe subjectivement avifaune"

Gilles Malatray

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