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Sound walk SWS26
2026

Seven walks

The author conducted a daily walk along the same route for seven consecutive days, recording the ambient sound each time. They then created a compilation by layering all seven recordings, synchronizing their footsteps via headphones to align the tracks.

Walking piece Marŝarto24 Shortlisted
2024

0.68mi Walk Around a Tree in Maplecrest NY, USA 2024

In this walking art piece, a simple yet evocative action unfolds over 18 minutes and 20 seconds, transforming a rural Catskills landscape into a meditation on connection, presence, and the changing dynamics of perception. The work takes the viewer on a journey around a tree in Maplecrest, NY, using the act of walking as both an artistic practice and a means of creating an evolving relationship with the environment.

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Nan Shepherd Conversations: Kerri Andrews & Merryn Glover

Kerri Andrews
2022-06-09 20:00
Online

Merryn Glover talks to Kerri Andrews about her new book ‘The Hidden Fires’ and how working on this book has helped return Nan Shepherd to the Cairngorms. About this event Merryn Glover has spent the past two years following Nan Shepherd’s footsteps across the Cairngorms. Her account of the experience is told in her upcoming

Curated news 17 Oct, 2022

Eyes Down: Walking as Thinking

CHARLIE LEE-POTTER – ‘Each thudding footstep feels hypnotic and I keep my eyes on the ground as I try to think my ideas into existence.’ Source: Eyes Down: Walking as Thinking

Sound walk
2018

Winterbourne House and Gardens

This walk features listening points in the gardens and Edgbaston Nature Reserve, where participants hear seasonal sound recordings made onsite. Walkers are also encouraged to engage with natural ambient sounds during the journey, with all audio produced by Annie Mahtani and Iain Armstrong.

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Articles elsewhere

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When we weren’t leaving yet

We meet and we continue on our travels but our roads keep crossing, old roads crossing new roads, walking in each others footsteps, meeting people knowing people we once lived around the corner with. We say the world is small but it isn't. We are sm...

Monique Besten
exercises in being here

daander

A gentle walk: Sall we geng fir a daander doon da rodd?

Added by Janette Kerr
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