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Sound walk SWS25 Shortlisted
2025

Where I End & You Begin

A surprising work of immersive theater that time-synchronizes two participants as they travel across MASS MoCA’s expansive galleries and campus. Show-issued equipment tether you wirelessly to one another in this 85-minute, deeply-connective piece.

Sound walk SWS25 Shortlisted
2025

SENDwalk

A soundwalk around Peel Park in Little Hulton made by the local SEND children. The walk was debuted at the Spirit of Little Hulton festival.

Happened
walkingevent  

SOUNDWALKS – 2025 International Computer Music Conference

2025 International Computer Music Conference
8 Jun, 2025 - 14 Jun, 2026
Boston Common, Tremont Street, Boston, MA, USA

CALL for SOUNDWALKS for the 2025 International Computer Music Conference in Boston from June 8-14, 2025. Deadline for proposals 2/15. https://icmc2025.sites.northeastern.edu/call-for-submissions/#soundwalks

Happened
walk · listen · café  

From Hanoi, with love

2022-01-06 19:00
Online

A technical challenge in Hanoi in 2013, eventually resulted in the creation of a platform now used the world over for providing immersive, location-based, auditive experiences. We talk with Josh Kopeček, founder of Echoes on Twitter Spaces.

Sound walk SWS25 Shortlisted
2024

Ascent: A Boulder Soundwalk

Inspired by composer Divya Maus' relationship to the Rocky Mountains as first an immigrant from Germany, a local, and then a returning visitor, ASCENT is a classical music experience installed in Boulder Colorado's Scott Carpenter Park that radically increases the accessibility of traditional choral concerts.

Walking piece
2020

Voice of Trees: Tallahassee

You’ll discover local poets who pay homage to Cascades Park, one of the City of Tallahassee’s gems. By following the route on the Echoes app, visitors will hear a selection of original poems read aloud by the poets themselves.

Sound walk SWS25
2025

Whisper in a Lily’s Ear

A data sonification piece based on five poems written by female poets who lived/worked in Boston over the course of its history.

Walking piece
2021

Saskambis #1. Lukiskiu aikste.

A piece by composer Jonas Jurkūnas. About the city that we do not see, and do not experience on the regular basis.

Sound walk SWS23
2023

Inisheer Open Form Pavilion of Air / Pailliún Aeir i bhFoirm Oscailte Inis Oírr

A floating roof of sound on Inisheer, GPS-triggered & accessed by headphones & Echoes app to playfully reframe public space as an essential community engagement. One of 15 in an international series drawing on Oskar & Zofia Hansen’s Open Form concept

Sound walk SWS23
2023

Bornholm Open Form Pavilion of Air / Bornholm Åben Form Pavillon af Luft

A floating roof of sound in Bornholm, GPS-triggered & accessed by headphones & Echoes app to playfully reframe public space as an essential community engagement. One of 15 in an international series drawing on Oskar & Zofia Hansen’s Open Form concept

Sound walk SWS23
2022

Lublin Open Form Pavilion of Air / Lubelski Pawilon Powietrza Formy Otwartej

A floating roof of sound at Lublin’s LSM. GPS-triggered & accessed by headphones & Echoes app. Playfully reframes public space as an essential community engagement. 1st of 15 in international series drawing on Oskar & Zofia Hansen’s Open Form concept

Sound walk SWS23
2023

Bergen Open Form Pavilion of Air / Bergen Åpen Form Paviljong av Luft

A floating roof of sound in Bergen, GPS-triggered & accessed by headphones & Echoes app to playfully reframe public space as an essential community engagement. One of 15 in an international series drawing on Oskar & Zofia Hansen’s Open Form concept.

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Walking pieces

Sound walk
2020

Saxons to the Seventies

A dramatic response to the history of an ancient woodland in south Bristol (UK).

Sound walk SWS23
2023

Extraordinary Streets: Withywood

A co-created community sound walk celebrating the imaginations of BS13 residents in south Bristol (UK).

Sound walk SWS23
2023

Extraordinary Streets: Stockwood

Community-created sound walk celebrating the south Bristol ward of Stockwood (UK).

Sound walk SWS23 Shortlisted
2023

Soundpaths: Heptonstall

In Soundpaths: Heptonstall, the traditional funereal folk song 'Lyke Wake Dirge' is blended with field recordings and mapped over the entire old village of Heptonstall in West Yorkshire.

Articles elsewhere

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Walking the Names: looking ahead

This is an invitation to join Walking the Names  at the Bath Union Workhouse Burial Ground on Wellsway Bath Sunday 1 November at 11.00-13.00A slow and socially distanced walk.Some good news:The grass has been cut again, and again the evolving 'poor' memorial has survived. It looks like it is now recognised again in the cutting plan.The soundwalk made with the recordings we generated during lockdown has been nominated for an international award in Sound Walk September 2020! Its here: [...]

Richard White
Richard White. Walking. Social Media. Heritage - Blog

Events

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walk · listen · café SWS21 SWS22  

From SWS21: Winner’s Circle

2022-09-06 18:00
Online

We talk with last year's winners, discuss their work, and what they've been up to in the last year.

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