listening
In this collection
Highlights
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
Lisan: Tongue
An interactive theatrical experience of walking with a twelve-year-old girl as your daughter along the Dubai creek, leading you through contrasting natural and urban landscapes – bringing to light the many lives of the creek and the stories of its human and more-than-human inhabitants.
(In)Audible Bodies
The artistic research project (In)Audible Bodies of Irini Kalogeopoulou is a soundwalk that took place in Psarades (WAC 25) investigating the concept of silence through an embodied listening and relational experience.
Books
Walking pieces
Articles on WLC
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.
Articles elsewhere
37. Kit Dobson, Field Notes on Listening
Like Jenna Butler’s Revery: A Year of Bees, I’m teaching Kit Dobson’s Field Notes on Listening this summer, and rereading it in preparation for last week’s classes was a revelation: I had forgotten it was so good. The book is structured like a musical composition, with three movements bracketed by a prelude and a coda, . The prelude … Continue reading 37. Kit Dobson, Field Notes on Listening →
• 6. Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
I love Raynor Winn’s 2018 memoir The Salt Path. I’ve taught it a couple of times, and my students have loved it, too. It tells a story about how going on a long walk–the 630-mile South West Coast Path, to be precise–saved Winn and her husband, Moth, from twin disasters: the loss of their home … Continue reading 6. Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence →
Histoires de points d’ouïe mis en œuvre
Faire œuvre, ce n’est pas forcément installer une trace tangible, durable, parfois spectaculaire… C’est aussi marcher, se poser, écouter, raconter, partager des perceptions fugaces, immatérielles, sensibles, fortement ancrées dans la mémoire du geste, du corps, de l’espace, des lieux de rencontres, de partage… C’est construire des traces où l’imaginaire s’invite pour essaimer sobrement des histoires […]
Marcher autour du silence !
Avec L’Atelier Tiers-Lieu Amplepuis, nous avons expérimenté une déambulation sensorielle écoutante, polymorphe, comme je les adore. Cinq kilomètres dans une campagne très belle, pentue, avec de magnifiques passages en forêt, de superbes vues panoramiques, d’incroyables paysages très vallonnés . Une thématique autour du silence, ou plutôt des silences. Une mise en condition, se sentir ancré […]
Events
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’
The London Ear: sound-themed guided walk
Listen your way round the City of London on a Sunday morning, and find out about its fascinating sounds – past, present and future. A guided walk like no other, The London Ear explores the City of London through the medium of sound. The walk blends real-time listening with stories about sounds from the City’s
• Links
Duncan MacLeod’s Website
Underwater Listening
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