Ghosts
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All-American Ruins: Sunset Town
All-American Ruins guides listeners through immersive audio fantasies, recreating my experiences exploring abandoned spaces. Along the way, I ask questions about society and culture while encouraging folks to activate their imaginations for healing.
Tenterfield Soundtrail
Tenterfield, located 20km south of the New South Wales border, is a town at a cultural and geographic crossroads framed by national parks and granite outcrops. The Tenterfield Soundtrail is a geo-locative audio walk featuring local stories and history, culminating in a community-led event on September 11 starting from the Visitors Information Centre.
Tenterfield Soundtrail
Just 20km south of the border, Tenterfield is a clear-sky town at the very tip of New South Wales. Rimmed by national parks and large granite outcrops, this is a town built on crossroads; between the coast and the western plains, traditional aboriginal tribal lands, states lines, time zones and railway gauges. The Tenterfield soundtrail
From the everyday to the unexpected – exploring our world through sound with Diane Hope
“a hypnotic, sensual tapestry” Elizabeth Mahoney writing about Diane’s Lonely Nights radio feature in The Guardian “a superbly crafted evocation of a way of life lost – but not entirely forgotten” the Radio Times on Diane’s experimental audio documentary feature Ghost Town (for Between the Ears, BBC Radio 3) “She is a phenomenon and you should absolutely work with
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In Farnham, you do not walk alone
Sophie Austin's "F for Farnham" is an immersive, self-guided audio story walk that investigates Farnham’s most haunted locales in Surrey. The audio walk delves into local folklore, evoking the lesser-known stories of ghosts trapped within Farnham's history, using narratives voiced by locals. Users are guided around town, invited to explore the locations while listening to the haunting stories for an alternative experience.
All-American Ruins: Mrs. Dalby and the Gravekeeper of Hatteras Island
All-American Ruins guides listeners through immersive audio fantasies, recreating my experiences exploring abandoned spaces. Along the way, I ask questions about society and culture while encouraging folks to activate their imaginations for healing.
Colston’s Last Journey (Worldwide)
Roll out this walk thru version of Ralph Hoyte's Colston’s Last Journey work of soundart about Bristol and the Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans anywhere in the world (iPhone; we're getting there for Android). For further info and to experience the work search colstonslastjourney.uk and follow the link to the 'worldwide' version.
Walking with Ghosts
‘Walking with Ghosts’ is a sound piece inspired by Carl Lavery’s landscape text ‘Mourning Walk,’ exploring connections between walking, memory, and landscape. It can be experienced as standalone audio or as a guided 25-minute walk where the sound interacts with the environment, encouraging a meditative engagement with personal memories or “ghosts” through a ritual involving a biodegradable item.
Articles elsewhere
Natalie J.K. Baloy, “Spectacles and Spectres: Settler Colonial Spaces in Vancouver”
I came to anthropologist Natalie J.K. Baloy’s essay, “Spectacles and Spectres: Settler Colonial Spaces in Vancouver,” through Michelle Daigle’s essay, “The Spectacle of Reconciliation: On (the) Unsettling Responsibilities to Indigenous Peoples in the Academy,” and given the importance of notions of spectacle (drawn from French theorist and psychogeographer Guy Debord) in the literature on walking, … Continue reading Natalie J.K. Baloy, “Spectacles and Spectres: Settler Colonial Spaces in Vancouver” →
