Augmented Reality
Highlights
The Tides of Our Tears
The Tides of Our Tears is a trail of seven augmented reality poems along the Thames, made with Invisible Dust and UCL scientists. Accessed via QR codes, the works reflect on floods, memory, and our evolving, fragile relationship with water.
Sunrise Walks – Augmented Topography
Sunrise Walks – Augmented Topography is a walking performance and experimental archive. Three sunrise photos taken in Paris, enhanced with augmented reality data, question the relationship between light, the celestial cycle, and the body's inscription within space.
Only Expansion and Soundwalk weekend
In the lead up to COP 26 and as part of Sound Walk September Duncan Speakman’s augmented audio walk Only Expansion will be hosted at Watershed, Bristol alongside a range of works, talks and experiences exploring cultural responses to ecology and climate change by artists including Kathy Hinde and Katy Connor. From spatial audio workshops
Libraries as Gardens – sound walk in Athens
The National Garden of Athens hosts an interactive audio project featuring global participants sharing stories and readings about their favorite public gardens during the pandemic, accessible via a mobile webapp or desktop map. This evolving sound walk includes lockdown silence recordings and aims to create a geolocated audio archive of personal and public garden experiences before, during, and after COVID-19.
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The 2018 Booin Gari Festival on the Noosa River features AURALITY, an augmented reality audio project that uses GPS location to trigger evolving soundscapes inspired by Queensland’s rainforests, rivers, and reefs. Visitors explore the sounds by moving through active zones on the app, with audio adapting throughout the festival for a dynamic, site-specific experience.
AIRLIE BEACH
Aurality is an augmented reality audio project launched at the 2017 Queensland Music Festival in Airlie Beach, offering interactive soundscapes of Queensland's rainforests, rivers, and reefs. The app uses GPS to trigger location-based audio experiences that evolve throughout the festival and are best experienced with headphones.
YEPPOON
Aurality is an augmented reality audio project launched at the 2017 Queensland Music Festival that uses GPS-triggered soundscapes to explore Queensland's rainforests, rivers, and reefs. The app allows users to experience evolving acoustic ecology by walking through mapped coastal locations where audio plays automatically within active zones.
ISLAND NEX(US): ARQUIPÉLAGO
Invisible Places 2017 ISLAND NEX(US): Arquipélago is an augmented reality sound walk on São Miguel island that links local communities with island communities in the Asia Pacific region through environmental soundscapes and cultural stories. The project features contributions from Vanuatu Women's Water Music, Leweton Community, and Noosa Biosphere Reserve, emphasizing ecological interconnection and the impacts of climate change on coastal and island cultures.
Walking pieces
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Articles on WLC
Brand new coastal walking app entered for award | National Oceanography Centre
A brand-new free app which combines poetic audio with augmented reality visuals to connect people with the Penzance and Dawlish sea fronts, has been Source: Brand new coastal walking app entered for award | National Oceanography Centre
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Articles elsewhere
Exploring eco dyes and plant process
The author's 30+ year creative journey reflects a unique, experimental path in art, blending traditional and digital media, particularly video. Engaging with community, nature, and technology, their work evolves, incorporating innovative methods and collaborations with First Nations organisations and local artists.
How Two Musicians Transformed New York into an Audio Augmented Reality Concert Experience.
From Central Park to Lincoln Center, step into a secret soundworld of original compositions.“Being able to understand someone else’s story is what really drives this piece. I hope that listeners are encouraged to be more curious in their lives, whateve...
Events
No Vantage Point
Join Duncan Speakman, a composer and sound artist, who creates narrative sound led experiences that engage audiences in uncontrolled public and private space to find out how we can reframe the idea of immersive media as something that exposes and reveals the entangled ecologies we exist in.
Roundware: a new approach to locative apps and sound art; Halsey Burgund in interview with Hamish Sewell
Halsey Burgund is a fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab where he researches new forms of audio documentary. For the past decade, his work has focused on contributory location-based audio installations. His app, Roundware (https://roundware.org/), is an open-source audio augmented reality platform for collecting, organizing and re-presenting audio via smartphones and the web. Using
