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Babylon Revisited
Participants, each speaking only their mother tongue, engaged in a walk and discussion without a shared language or set topic, creating a dynamic, horizontal process of interaction. The experience emphasized expression over comprehension, producing a multilingual soundscape. Some other themes explored included communication beyond understanding, identity, isolation, reflection and connection, disorientation, and the power of being present and included.
ROAD
An audio walk presentation of a second-act libretto from the upcoming opera *RUNE* features a dialogue between the protagonist and future London inhabitants, incorporating layered voices, annotations, and related musical themes. The opera explores themes linking quantum fluctuations at the universe’s origin, creative storytelling in a history-forbidden society, and connections between language, memory, and identity across time and space.
Hearing Australian Identity : Sites as acoustic spaces, an audible polyphony.
Hearing Australian Identity : Sites as acoustic spaces, an audible polyphony. By Ros Bandt. Australian identity is a complex interplay of site, language and technology. Sound Installations are powerful tools to access the collective consciousness associated with sites, each one an ever-changing audible polyphony. For each site there are many stories, dissolving around each other,
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My Teacher, Sunil Kumar
This piece is the first in a series of reflections on and conversations with interpreters who have embedded themselves in the city they translate to others. Their imageries and imaginations provide ways of seeing the past and present of the city as also forms of caring about the city to future generations of interpreters.… Continue reading My Teacher, Sunil Kumar →
Thinking About Walking, Space, and Language
Last night I was thinking about the next step in my walking research, which I’ve had to put on hold because of the pandemic. Instead of long walks in the country, I’ve been making shorter walks in the city. I found myself wondering about the city as a language, and more generally, about the implications […]
Miedo y felicidad. Fear and happiness.
Yesterday in Spanish class we did an exercise with names of famous people. We had to say if we knew them, who they were, if we liked what they were doing. I knew Penélope Cruz of course, actriz and Alejandro González Iñáritu, director de cine. Leo ...
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