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A Week To Walk A Fortnight
The post describes a collection of seven interconnected stories set between the British Library and Smithfield Market in London, each paired with a geo-located companion story accessible via What3words locations. These narratives form part of a larger walking-themed series, available as chapbooks from the Museum of Walking, and include audio readings by various performers.
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Sounds Wild and Broken: Nature’s Sonic Marvels
With David George Haskell. This event takes place at the British Library. David George Haskell is professor of biology and environmental studies at the University of the South and author of the acclaimed recent Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and The Crisis Of Sensory Extinction. It explores the sounds of an entire planet, from crickets’
Ecumenopolis – the whole world is one city
“Ecumenopolis – the whole world is one city”, a series of collaborative and global sound walks created for Sound Walk Sunday 2019. The sound walks are made for individual walkers around the British Library London, the State Library of Moscow, the National Library of Greece and the City Library of Sao Paulo, during September 2019.
• Listening Together: Sound, Memory and Wellbeing Symposium
Sharing findings from the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage. The British Library alongside 10 Hub partners has been using the rich content from its sound archives to develop new programmes and resources that inspire creativity, stimulate memory and enhance wellbeing.
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Exploring with Sound Walks
Interested in literature, sound recordings, place, technology and walking? Then you may wish to attend our upcoming Exploring with Sound Walks event at the British Library on the afternoon of Friday 7th June. Following on from our recent ‘Season of Place’, which was about all things digital mapping; at this Sound Walks event Mahendra Mahey from BL Labs will talk about the
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Score #17 – Mathilda
Score #17 by Mathilda [score base: A faded green British Library Card for Mr B Morris; photo and score: Mathilda Guerin (2021); score text: Scene in Paris/‘momentary excitement’/at a table, in the subway, among friends/SMALL BITS/entertainment...
