local history
Highlights
Museum of Stories: Bury Park
Museum of Stories: Bury Park is a geolocative app featuring twelve audio dramas based on real experiences from the Bury Park district of Luton, UK, each linked to its actual location. The stories span from the 19th century to the present, reflecting diverse community histories including local cinema, Jewish life, political activism, and contemporary migration.
The Pedway
The Chicago Pedway is a sprawling, illogical network of underground corridors spanning 40 downtown blocks. On the Trail of a Disorderly Future explored this space through walking tours, souvenirs, and a self-guided book, blending myth and history across 36 sites.
“MOSS – Mapping Otherworldly Soundscapes”
This geolocated soundwalk was commissioned by the 13th edition of the MOMENTUM biennale by the festival. It is an investigation and celebration of sound and an exploration of the relations between the natural and cultural worlds of Moss, Norway.
Along These Lines
‘Along The Lines’ is an immersive mobile soundwalk exploring Brighton’s laundry heritage. Designed and recorded by sound artist and researcher Anna Celeste Edmonds, in collaboration with charity Quiet Down. This project was funded by the Heritage Lottery, and is accessible on Echoes and the artist’s website.
Walking pieces
Is There a Place for REVOlution? or Peace and Biscuits
A sound walk and related art installation in the Ferry Road tunnel of the Edinburgh cycle path network. The pedestrian can use a QR code to listen on a mobile phone. Inspired by graffiti - found text and images from the local area.
Out For A Walk
Out For A Walk is a podcast created during the 2020 lockdown by music promoter Anthony Chalmers and sound recordist Sarah Nicol, focusing on walks in and around London. The podcast combines local history narration with nature sound recordings, celebrating the city's green spaces.
Goonoowigall Soundtrail
The Goonoowigall Soundtrail is a geo-locative audio experience from Jukembal land, part of the Kamilaroi nation near Inverell, depicting the lives of Aboriginal people living there from the 1940s to the 1970s. The site, known as Sheep Station Gulley at the time, served as a refuge offering safety, community, and connection to land amid displacement and social upheaval.
Articles elsewhere
PhD landscape walk – walking the ghost topography of Cwmbran new town
This is a description of one of a series of landscape walks through my PhD case study areas. Here the walk navigates a route around the post-war planned new town of Cwmbran in south-east Wales, developed over the former lands of Magna Porta, the '...
Hatterall – Hill towards the sun
The Hatterall ridge looking north from its southern-most point at Trewyn 'hill fort'.The Hatterall, or versions of it, is a long-standing name used in times past for the eastern uplands of the Black Mountains, now used more particularly for the heights...
The Church-Tent/The Tent-Church
Wandering through the district of Hellendoorn I was wondering if there is a building that symbolises the district. A building with a history. A building that might not exist anymore. A castle maybe or a manor, from the time when the written sources sta...
