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Highlights
Surfacing through Rhythm
In the UK, I expand on the founding purpose of Mary Stevens Park, Stourbridge, as a mingling space for people from different backgrounds by including the more-than-human. I assign each solar term a territorial ‘segment,’ equalising time and place.
Singing with Bridges Soundwalk
Singing with Bridges is a self-directed sound project in Bromley-by-Bow, London, where participants engage with the urban soundscape by listening and responding to trains passing under a bridge. The project encourages silent observation and vocal interaction to explore the interplay between human presence and the city's dynamic rhythms.
Where am I? A dislocated soundwalk
Where are we when we walk? Are we here, in this place that our feet move through, or are we there, lost in thoughts and memories of other times and places? This playful and dream-like soundwalk aims to throw these questions into confusion. It can be taken while in Prespa or anywhere else, including indoors.
Hearing Australian Identity : Sites as acoustic spaces, an audible polyphony.
Hearing Australian Identity : Sites as acoustic spaces, an audible polyphony. By Ros Bandt. Australian identity is a complex interplay of site, language and technology. Sound Installations are powerful tools to access the collective consciousness associated with sites, each one an ever-changing audible polyphony. For each site there are many stories, dissolving around each other,
Shadow-walks
This audio paper presents the Shadow-walks project, where the author collaborates with local inhabitants worldwide to document meaningful, repeated walks through recorded conversations and improvised vocalizations. The project explores how repeated walking imprints traces on places, making personal narratives and communal memories audible, with adaptations during the COVID-19 pandemic including remote interpretations of these walks.
Walk This Weekend
In early April 2020, over 30 participants worldwide took individual walks to collectively document outdoor sounds, images, and words during the Covid-19 lockdown. Tamsin Grainger compiled these recordings into a video titled "Bring the Outside Inside," accompanied by walk guidelines and related writings available online.
Articles elsewhere
Inspired!
The time has come to talk of passion, vision and inspiration. What do you get if you cross a diplomatic well spoken harmony gardener, artist, muso and writer who sympathetically restores historic buildings including eco retrofits, and has a longing to grow good healthy food in a way that plants love, with a passionate and […]
Walking with Joyce MacDougall on 3 December 2011
Kilchrenan It is Saturday 3rd December – my 42nd birthday – and I am walking with my Aunty Joyce, down the single track roads of Kilchrenan. Kilchrenan was the first place I lived – from 0 to 8 years. Eight years is a long time for a child – especially when it’s the first eight […]
