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Sound walk SWS26
2026

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?

Sound walk SWS25 Shortlisted
2025

Hidden Speakers

Binaural recordings of hidden speakers while walking in Japan

Happened
walkingevent SWS19  

London Street Noises

2019-09-01 13:00
Beauchamp Place, London, UK

In September of 1928 five locations across central London were recorded by a team from Columbia Records led by Commander Daniel and supported by the Daily Mail. The project was prompted by a pressing concern for the impact on health and wellbeing from traffic noise. As well as traffic sounds of the day accompanied by

Happened
walkingevent SWS20  

Sounds from the Chase and Chalke

Chase & Chalke Landscape Area Partnership
2020-09-18 09:30
Online

75 minute on-line workshop in which you get to learn about planning, writing, recording, editing and locating a sound walk of your very own.

Transmitter

25 Jun, 2023 · Slow Radio
Across Britain, 352 BBC transmitters stand, mostly on the tops of hills broadcasting sound, music and voices invisibly across the country. In this slow radio episode, Matthew Herbert and a group of recording engineers visited some of these transmitters in …
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Penguins v Seals – Tristan da Cunha

4 Oct, 2020 · Slow Radio
With extraordinary close-up recordings of his life as a vet, the bird population, the wildlife, the sea and the shore, veterinarian Joe Hollins brings his time on the island of Tristan da Cunha to the ears of the Slow Radio listener.Joe has recorded over 2…
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video SWS24 2024  

From the Everyday to the Unexpected – exploring our world through sound with Diane Hope

A video recording of a Sound Walk September Café in which Diane Hope shares her enthusiasms and expertise on location recording. The recording includes a lively discussion among audio producers and sound walk composers on a range of topics from recording in a sauna to what binaural microphone is best on a windy day…

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Sound walk SWS20
2020

Carrington Moss Sound Garden

Carrington Moss Sound Garden is an interactive audio project inviting participants to walk a 3.5km circuit on Carrington Moss, recording and planting geo-located sounds that document their experience of the currently threatened greenbelt landscape. Using a dedicated app, visitors create a layered soundscape archive capturing the area's natural and social environment prior to planned development.

Happened
walkingevent SWS21  

Daydream Livorno SoundWalk 2

2021-09-18 14:30

Listening and Recording In the second step we head outside again and take the same route we took a week before, however this time, make an audio/video recording of your entire journey with a smart phone or digital recorder. You can ‘set and forget’ the recording device, or use it creatively to frame your journey

From Dadar to the Stars

23 Feb, 2020 · Slow Radio
An intimate, breath-close binaural portrait of the intoxicating Indian city of Mumbai.
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A late night trip across Kabukicho, Tokyo’s entertainment district

20 May, 2018 · Slow Radio
Nick Luscombe heads out for a late night trip across ‘sleepless town’, Tokyo’s ancient entertainment district, known for it’s bright lights, late night drinking dens and seedy back streets. Armed with his recorder and a local friend for guidance, Nick cap…
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Sound walk
2017

Before we burn

Taking Burning Man participants on a walk of the playa, before it is fully populated by Burners for the 2017 event. Walking for one hour, blindfolded. Recording the sound of the hour of walking, and sharing this recording online.

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earl-footed, hurdle-footed, club-footed

As in “He’s got feet like an earl-footed turnip” (said of someone who walks with his feet turned out). from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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