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Walking piece 2014

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."

Walking piece
Walking piece 2013

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.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2011

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.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS19 2017

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.

Sound walk
Sound walk 2017

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.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS19 2019

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.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2012

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

Walking piece
Walking piece 2014

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

Walking piece
Walking piece 2014

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;

Sound walk
Sound walk 2015

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

GPS, geo-poetic system

Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).

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