locative media
Listening to the other
"Listening to each other / Einander zuhören – Stadt – (Ge)Schichten was a collaborative sound project conducted simultaneously in Athens, Dresden, and Essen, involving researchers, sound artists, and collectives to explore the relationship between residents and their sonic environment. Using the open-source locative media platform noTours, the project created acoustic cartographies through soundwalks and sound maps, resulting in over 600 recordings and ten soundwalk areas in Athens that offer interactive, non-linear auditory experiences challenging conventional visual urban models."
A Knocking Bird
A Knocking Bird was an urban e-culture project producing a geolocated sound walk for smartphones that explored the relationship between city inhabitants and birds through art performance and collective participation. Developed over six months with residents from 15 European cities, the project combined locative media and artistic interventions to investigate urban nature and memory, and was available from June 2013 to January 2015.
Geolocated poetry in Ghent (S.M.A.K.)
Geolocated poetry was a pilot project launched on 1 May 2011, featuring a geolocated poetry sound walk with live art performances in Citadel Park near the City Museum of Contemporary Art (S.M.A.K.). The project, coordinated by Geert Vermeire and involving Escoitar.org / noTours and the Milena principle/WIT Urban Team, was later updated and presented at the E-Culture Fair in Hasselt in November 2011.
Continuing the journey of the Tortoise and the spider
In 2017, Ros Bandt and Geert Vermeire created "The Tortoise and the Spider," a collaborative sound walk performance involving dancers connected by strings and portable speakers, forming a giant illuminated human harp played during a night walk starting at Parnassos Mountain in Delphi, Greece. The project's instruments traveled globally for performances integrating locative media, with the collaboration continuing through 2019 in locations including Athens, Vienna, and Melbourne.
Nambour Heritage Soundtrail
The Nambour Heritage Soundtrail is a locative audio walk that explores the history and heritage of Nambour through local stories and original music. Narrated by ex-Powderfinger's Jon Coghill with sound design by Hamish Sewell and music by local band Biscuit, it highlights key sites including the sugar mill, Bayards Corner, and the old Vogue cinema.
Chantry and Calder
Love Without Sound’s geolocative soundwalk, Chantry and Calder, uses the Echoes app to guide listeners around Wakefield’s medieval bridge, Chantry Chapel, and the river Calder, inspired by JMW Turner’s 1798 watercolour of the site. The walk requires a smartphone with location enabled and offers an immersive audio experience triggered by proximity to key locations along the route.
An Umbrella for 2
“An Umbrella for 2” is a sound walk written contextually in response to a place and each time renewed in relation to the spaces and populations heard & encountered. A pair of listeners are invited to discover points of view and points of listening all along their journey through the public space. A sound umbrella
Lacock Unlocked
Explore the historic village of Lacock. As you walk around the village you will hear stories linked to items from the estate archive. Join twentieth century village post master, the real Harry Potter, and eighteenth century innkeeper, Martha Bramham in this walk through time. Cared for today by the National Trust, the Lacock estate has
Chronomotive
Chronomotive describes the moment in the present when you realise you are the future self you projected from the past. it is this reflection that reveals the chronomotion, a trajectory in time between two distinct events: the vision and its revision. As you walk around the Watermans Art Centre you follow the astronomer Charlie Green;
NetPark
NetPark is a series of locative projects curated by Simon Poulter and developed by Metal with assistance from the Digital R&D Fund. Artist projects and children’s stories can be downloaded for iOS, Android and web/mp3. Many of these use GPS and free wi-fi is provided in the park for visitors and you can contact Metal
