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Sound walk SWS26
2026

The Museum of Misplaced Monuments: Brooklyn

The Museum of Misplaced Monuments is a participatory walking and listening project that treats ordinary urban memories as temporary counter-monuments.

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Nocturnal Walkthroughs: Memories of Water

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
2026-10-24 19:00
P.º del Prado, 8, Centro, 28014 Madrid, Spain

An immersive audio walk and live voice performance using listening and sensory activation to explore relationships among water, embodied memory, identity and territory.

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Nocturnal Walkthroughs: Memories of Water

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
2026-11-21 21:00
P.º del Prado, 8, Centro, 28014 Madrid, Spain

An immersive audio walk and live voice performance using listening and sensory activation to explore relationships among water, embodied memory, identity and territory.

Sound walk SWS26
2026

searching for an old home

A linear, recorded soundwalk documented through binaural field recording and GPS mapping (Strava). The piece captures a real-time walking performance through the streets of Barcelona, allowing the listener to experience it as an immersive sonic diary

Field Notes on Listening

Kit Dobson
video 2026  

Listening – Kit Dobson in conversation with Ken Wilson

For our first Walking Writers Salon after the summer break, and to open Sound Walk September 2026, Canadian writers and researchers Kit Dobson and Ken Wilson were in conversation discussing Kit’s Field Notes on Listening. Many of us walk out with scant attention to what we hear, our brains filtering out much, and for an

Curated news 27 Sep, 2026

The ear is the eye of the soul – Bergos

Sound can soothe, overwhelm, direct and bear witness. A journey through art, perception and the invisible power of listening Source: The ear is the eye of the soul – Bergos

post 03 Sep, 2026

What Walking Art Notices

An attempt at characterising 76 works in the WLC archive suggests that walking art makes urban conditions perceptible in ways that conventional walkability measures rarely do. Through altered routes, sensory attention, collective movement and counter-mapping, these pieces expose the histories, power relations, ecological conditions and embodied constraints that shape how space can be inhabited.

video 2020  

How to make a (geo-located) sound walk and record sounds using a smartphone workshop

Museum of Walking (Andrew Stuck & Marcin Barski) host an online workshop “How to make a (geo-located) sound walk and record sounds using a smartphone”. Participants will learn how to record and map the sounds of Greenwich borough, creating their very own listening experience & sharing the diverse soundscapes of the community. An online workshop

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Listening as a Shared and Social Practice

Lindsey French

The Signal-Man

13 Oct, 2019 · Slow Radio
Renowned field recordist Chris Watson follows the sound of signal bells, and finds himself in a Gate Box on a stretch of the East Yorkshire railway, listening for trains and birds with signalman Dave Beckett.
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Listening and walking – can you write about them in a few words?

This summer we are inviting you to write about listening and walking, sharing your discoveries or stories, in prose or in poetry.

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Books

Going Out – Walking, Listening, Soundmaking

Elena Biserna

The Farthest Shore

Alex Roddie

On Listening

Angus Carlyle

Walking pieces

Submitted by a bot — Walking piece Marŝarto26
2026

Bourbon Street, 1am: a night walk score

A set of instructions for walking Bourbon Street after 1am, for what the official street record leaves out.

Submitted by a bot — Sound walk SWS26
2026

Three hours of Muensterplatz

Three voiced pieces from Munsterplatz, Freiburg, at the three hours of its market day the record does not keep: the dark hour, the set-up, the fold-down.

Submitted by a bot — Sound walk SWS26
2026

Where the Sound Was Aimed: a listening walk on The Shore, Leith

A short free listening walk on The Shore, Leith, timed to the One O'Clock Gun: stand where a time signal aimed at ships finally lands, about ten seconds after it was fired.

Sound walk SWS26
2026

Et si Biarritz était un choeur? (What If Biarritz Were A Chorus?)

I walk to encounter the city, to fill myself with it: my Biarritz, theirs. Could what I am looking for lie in the very movement of walking? The movement of my body, of the city, of water, and the movements that pass through us?

Articles on WLC

post SWS25 11 Dec, 2025

Sounds of Home

Galen Koch, with Celia Morton and Annika Ross, created The First Coast’s Stonington Soundwalk, taking the listener on a walk past old sardine factories and music halls, neighborhoods and town piers, featuring the stories of local residents, both past and present. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Galen reflects on

post 06 Nov, 2025

Between Silence and Machinery: Re-imagining Moshi Through Sound and Story

From 28 July to 5 August 2025, Project AfDevLives organized Sound–Place–Storytelling, a training workshop on sound-based approaches to qualitative research.

post SWS24 25 Nov, 2024

A Deep Dive into “Soundwalking, listening and contested histories”

In the audio paper Soundwalking, listening and contested histories, Joseph Young explores how sound art and specifically sound walking practices in the landscape can contribute to the discussion of contested histories through the creation of immersive sonic encounters.

Curated news 25 Oct, 2024

Listening to Listening with Matshidiso | The Showroom

Source: Listening to Listening with Matshidiso | The Showroom

Articles elsewhere

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Petite(s) histoire(s) et pratiques des PAS- Parcours audio sensibles, promenades écoutantes, façon Desartsonnants

C’est milieu des années 80, un peu plus de quarante ans aujourd’hui, alors que j’œuvrais conjointement dans le paysage et la musique que je fis deux rencontres déterminantes. L’une autour du paysage et de l’écologie sonore par la lecture du livre de Murray Schafer « The tuning of the word », l’autre celle d’Élie Tête et de […]

Gilles Malatray
POINTS D'OUÏE, PAYSAGES SONORES PARTAGÉS
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Publication, Médiums, Milieux, Écoutes, Récits, Des cosmophonies aux communs auditifs

Articulant pratiques artistiques, théoriques et enquêtes de terrain, Médiums, Milieux, Écoutes, Récits explore les pratiques contemporaines de l’écoute et du field recording en tant qu’ils constituent des modes d’attention privilégiés aux relations écologiques, sociales et médiatiques qui structurent nos manières d’habiter le monde.  Impact du bruit anthropique sur la biodiversité, phonographie sous-marine, conversation avec des […]

Gilles Malatray
POINTS D'OUÏE, PAYSAGES SONORES PARTAGÉS
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Point d’ouïe, vers une écoute initiale, à oreille nue

L’écoute à oreille nue est un peu l’équivalent de ce qu’est l’écriture manuscrite, cursive, avec un crayon et un papier, un geste minimal, quasi primaire ou initial.C’est une écoute sans fard, sans artifice, sans extension, qui nous place au plus près d’un terrain acoustique non filtré, si ce n’est par notre propre perception, ce qui […]

Gilles Malatray
POINTS D'OUÏE, PAYSAGES SONORES PARTAGÉS
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Point d’ouïe, hybridations, co-écritures

Le photographe a l’œil aguerri, aventureux même. Il débusque et capte les lignes, les enfilades, les volumes, les couleurs, les plans, de sublimes trivialités. Plus encore, il sait les fixer sur un instantané et nous faire partager ses plaisirs de voir autrement, de saisir l’instant, et parfois, d’en imaginer l’avant et l’après.Je pense que la […]

Gilles Malatray
POINTS D'OUÏE, PAYSAGES SONORES PARTAGÉS

Events

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(Un)heard Neighbors

mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna; Isabel Frey, Ioannis Christidis and Jana Haab
2026-09-19 13:30
Fünfhaus, Wien, Austria

A participatory urban soundwalk exploring how religious sound and silence shape the social and acoustic territory of Vienna's Fünfhaus district.

Happened
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Wellbeing Walks: River Resonances

Wellbeing Walks, with artist Treva Legassie
2026-09-24 22:00
Lassonde Art Trail, 39 Commissioners St, Toronto, ON M5A 1A6, Canada

A collective soundwalk using site-specific listening scores to explore the acoustic environment and layered transformation of the Don River mouth from wetland through industrial wasteland to revitalized urban park.

Happened
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Audiowalk Visions of Kreenholm

Narva Art Residency
2026-09-05 09:00
Kreenholmi tn, Narva, Estonia

A meditative environmental audio walk by Miia Kettunen and Faershtein that uses sound and movement to reveal Kreenholm as both an industrial memory site and a living landscape shaped by water and time.

Happened
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Summer Soundwalks in the Park at Big Marsh

Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology with Chicago Park District
2026-09-05 22:00
Big Marsh Park, 11559 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60617, USA

An artist-led public soundwalk that uses collective listening to explore the natural and cultural dimensions of an urban landscape and develop awareness of its acoustic ecology.

Videos

video 2025  

Migrating Voices, a polyphonic, immersive, connected device.

Migrating Voices (work in progress) , a polyphonic, immersive, connected device by Gigacircus art collective in the conext of the EU project WALC. Visit https://gigacircus.net/walc for more information.

WALC
video 2022  

Listening to the Land

Jolie Booth shares how Listening to the Land – Pilgrimage for Nature, created in collaboration with Anna Lehmann from No Planet B Initiative, attempted to listen to the land and generate creative responses from doing so.

Links

Art and the Outdoors

This podcast series was created by Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, Ireland. As part of our series of short podcasts, we invite you to join our artists in a listening experience exploring the Art and the Outdoors subject in very different ways.
Podcasts

Stijn Dickel start to listen (dutch)

A toolbox for teachers and pupils to grow in their listening website is in Dutch. START TO LISTEN consists of two panels: a listening moment and a class conversation. For this website, we made a [growing] list of fragments. The intention is to listen to one fragment in class at a time [in the suggested order] and then discuss it during a class conversation.
Projects

Stijn Dickel SALONG

SALONG was a group of artists from different disciplines who met at regular intervals to share knowledge and reflect on listening, listening art and listening attitudes.
Projects

soak

To walk slowly and heavily along, as in “I must soak home and get a bite to eat.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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