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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?
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.
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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
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
43. Kit Dobson, Field Notes on Listening
I finished rereading Kit Dobson’s wonderful Field Notes on Listening on the flight (appropriately) to Calgary. I wrote about it last year, and I stand by everything I said then. In fact, I may have been stinting with my praise. I’ll be talking to Kit next Wednesday at walk-listen-create’s writer’s salon; you can join us … Continue reading 43. Kit Dobson, Field Notes on Listening →
• 41. Kit Dobson, Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada
I picked up a copy of Kit Dobson’s Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada because I’m interviewing him for a Walk-Listen-Create event in a couple of weeks (details about this event are here). Our conversation will focus on his book Field Notes on Listening (which I’ve blogged about here), but I wanted to prepare more thoroughly … Continue reading 41. Kit Dobson, Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada →
• Écoute toujours
L’écoute permet, entre autres choses :D’entendre, de travailler, d’extraire des matières sonores.Les matières sonores quant à elles, révèlent des esthétiques aussi variées que les espaces explorés.Nous font travailler et partager des gestes, des postures d’écoute, des pédagogies de terrain.Caractérisent des lieux via la lecture de l’agencement de marqueurs sonores singuliers, permettant de mieux les comprendre […]
44. Michelle Poirier Brown, You Might Be Sorry You Read This
No, I’m not sorry I read this powerful and haunting book. It’s not an easy read, and (please consider this a trigger warning, although I don’t intend to go into details) I wouldn’t expect it to be: the subject matter, which includes child sexual abuse, ought to be difficult. If it weren’t, something would be … Continue reading 44. Michelle Poirier Brown, You Might Be Sorry You Read This →
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Listening
For our first Walking Writers Salon after the summer break, and to open Sound Walk September, we are delighted to welcome Canadian writers and researchers Kit Dobson and Ken Wilson 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,
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