post: Sound Walk
Shortlist zum Audiowalk-Award 2026
Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: Habemus Shortlist! Die Jury hat getagt und getagt und getagt, mal eingeschlossen im Studio, mal in den Kacheln der Videokonferenz. Nun präsentiert sie diese vier Produktionen für Shortlist des Audiowalk-Awards 2026. Wer hat nun gewonnen? Kommt und erfahrt’s auf dem Berliner Hörspielfestival der freien Szene. Im September 2026 in der Akademie …
Walking Art and Resistance at the 61st Venice Biennale: from Pussy Riot to the Holy See
Venice in May. Green water, muted light, the racketing of tourists’ wheeling luggage across damp stone. Now the Biennale has opened there are new sounds, sometimes protest chants, sometimes the footsteps of marchers. Or perhaps they are old sounds. Venice: a stage for spectacle and protest since the upheavals of 1968. The clamour of a
Sounding Art Trail: Listening to a Trail | Culture Routes Society
The UK leg of the Sounding Art Trail project, coordinated by the Culture Routes Society and supported by the British Council’s Connections Through Culture programme, has been successfully completed along the North Downs Way route. Aiming to draw attention to points along walking routes at risk due to climate change through sound and art, this project seeks
Walking in Pairs 4
4th in the Walking in Pairs series with Kristina Rothstein in Vancouver, Canada and Tamsin Grainger in Edinburgh, Scotland. Walking together, apart. December 4th 2025. Our theme: Freedom / Constraint Kristina (9.45) : It was a chilly rainy day. I walked from my house to Queen Elizabeth Park, a large municipal arboretum which includes ornamental … Continue reading Walking in Pairs 4
1 topic + 1 location + 1 day + 16 audio creators = 1 audio walk
On 27 February 2026, 16 sound enthusiasts roamed the city centre of Bern with microphones and explored the world of ascents and descents – biographically, geographically, sociologically… and, in any case, artistically through sound. Accompanied by the two SOUNDMARKERS Florian Hohnhorst and Ruben Kurschat, a collective audio walk was created – and performed at the …
Sounding Art Trail links Britain and Turkey
Sounding Art Trail: Walking, Listening & Creating with Place Sounding Art Trail is a site-specific soundscape project rooted in the creative practice of walking. The project unfolds along two long-distance routes namely the North Downs Way in the UK and the Lycian Way in Türkiye, inviting walkers to listen, move, and create with the landscapes
České Budějovice: Evropské hlavní město kultury 2028! INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL – SOUTH SPECIFIC 2028 Přidejte se k nám na cestu za (PERMA)kulturou.
South Specific Festival announces an open call for international co-productions of new site-specific and immersive projects in the field of live arts and audiovisual creation. Source: České Budějovice: Evropské hlavní město kultury 2028! INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL – SOUTH SPECIFIC 2028 Přidejte se k nám na cestu za (PERMA)kulturou.
In memoriam
Il y a un an jour pour jour, disparaissait l’ami Philippe Franck.Artiste du sonore et du numérique, enseignant-chercheur, curateur, critique et historien de l’art, directeur artistique et programmateur de nombreux événements, dont City Sonic qu’il a créé, développeur de réseaux, il a œuvré à de multiples projets, en terres belges et au-delà.J’ai rencontré cet infatigable […]
You Are [Always] in Native Space: Grappling with Legacies of Colonization Through Sound – Art Journal Open
A collaboration between a tribal elder and an artist descended from first colonizers Source: You Are [Always] in Native Space: Grappling with Legacies of Colonization Through Sound – Art Journal Open
Engagements auriculaires
Plus le temps passe, plus grossissent les tensions, climatiques, géopolitiques, sociales, plus le secteur culturel et artistique est invité à s’engager dans une résistance humaniste, écologique, si ce n’est écosophique.Desartsonnants, car il s’agit ici de sa position personnelle et non d’une injonction moralisatrice, ne peut pas rester dans une tour d’ivoire coupée des réalités. Il […]
Announcing the winners of SWS25
It’s been an absolute joy to explore this year’s submissions for the Sound Walk September Awards. Speaking on behalf of the Grand Jury, it wasn’t easy to pick which pieces stood out just a tad more in the field that was this year’s shortlist. But, using cold, hard, mathematics, the numbers didn’t lie, and were
Echoes in the Fog: A Soundwalk from Moss to Jeløy
Brona Martin created MOSS – Mapping Otherworldly Soundscapes, an investigation and celebration of sound and an exploration of the relations between the natural and cultural worlds of Moss, Norway. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Brona discusses the piece. Often our first introduction to a new environment is experienced through
En écoute !
Se mettre à l’écoute, ou en écoute, c’est plonger dans le monde des sons, habiter un corps sensible comme une peau vibrante, une caisse de résonance à nos environnements. C’est accueillir une foule de ressentis, de joies, de peurs, d’incertitudes, d’aménités, de situations fluentes…C’est aussi considérer l’écoute comme un objet d’observation, avec ses mécanismes, ses […]
Listening to a City That Pushes Back
Amble Skuze created Normalised Interfacing, a wheelchair sound walk, which maps the experiences and thoughts of a wheelchair user in a new city. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Amble discusses the piece, and what lead to its creation. My piece, Normalised Interfacing, started with a commission from the Zentrum
Territoires et paysages sonores, écoutes actives et pédagogies
Parce que si la nuisance sonore est un fait, une réalité, une source de problème sanitaires, une gêne stressante, nos environnements ne se réduisent heureusement pas à ces constats négatifs et dépréciatifs. Durant de nombreuses années, en collaboration avec des établissements d’enseignement, de la maternelle à l’enseignement supérieur, Desartsonnants a mené, et le fait encore, un travail autour […]
