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Walking piece
Walking piece 2010

A Common Third

In A Common Third, Simon Pope explores walking as a collaborative, intellectual, and social process. Inviting guests to navigate unfamiliar terrains together, Pope investigates how shared decisions, landscapes, and cultural practices shape both the journey and the experience of being together.

Sound walk
Sound walk 1966

LISTEN

LISTEN by Max Neuhaus is a pioneering soundwalk in Manhattan, transforming ambient city sounds into an artistic, immersive experience that highlights the spatial, social, and perceptual dimensions of listening.

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First Monday Sound Salon

Museum of Walking
2016-11-07 19:00
Multiple locations

Between November, 2016 and November 2017 the Museum of Walking ran regular Sound Salons on the First Monday of every month. Join us for relaxed informal discussions about field recording, audio walks, soundscape composition, immersive performances, geo-located media and digital live art performances, in which we share ideas, compositions and walks and explore how sound (and

Sound walk
Sound walk 2021

Imagined Islands

Four works used repeatedly walked routes to map out imaginary islands. These were mapped cartographically and with sound and poetry. I am currently creating another two imagined islands.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2013

iAmbic Pedometer: Ur Manoeuvre

iAmbic Pedometer is an iPhone video of Brennan walking through Sunderland, mixing ambient sound with murmured, poetic utterances. Drawing on Wordsworth, Schwitters, and the idea of the ur, it links language’s sonic origins to the rhythm of walking.

Sound walk
Sound walk 2004

Drift

Drift is a site-specific GPS-based sound installation exploring wandering, disorientation, and the limits of GPS. Visitors traverse a shifting 2 km² space of sand, sea, and interactive sounds, where footsteps, spoken word, and tides create a playful, unpredictable experience of place.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2013

Session

Session is a video triptych filmed in Sharjah where natural elements play regional percussion instruments. It explores socio-spatial textures and cultural identity, inviting viewers to navigate their environment as voyagers and cartographers.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2008

Footnotes: Cape Jourimain

A 2 km walk along Cape Jourimain’s Lighthouse Trail during the 2008 Eco‑Arts Festival explored life at the lighthouse, using audio fragments to evoke isolation, hardships, pleasures, and memories of four generations who lived there.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1999

Hillclimbing

Hillclimbing is a video by Cardiff and Miller showing their ascent of a snow-covered hill. Filmed from Miller’s perspective, with sounds of footsteps, breaths, and their dog, the looped work never reaches the summit, emphasizing effort and repetition.

Sound walk
Sound walk 2010

Guide To Getting Lost

Guide to Getting Lost by Jennie Savage is a 30-min audio walk inviting participants to explore familiar spaces differently, blending real and fictional sounds. Walkers interpret directions uniquely, navigate at their own pace, and choose how closely to follow the guide.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2016

It Takes a Year to Walk Around the Sun

It Takes a Year to Walk Around the Sun is a looped moving-image installation using a floor-projected, rhythmic, disorienting video to evoke physical and psychological immersion. It developed from a year-long performative Instagram project.

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Walking as Artist... 85

Graeme Miller, Linked (2003-)

“Commissioned by the Museum of London, Graeme Miller’s ongoing Linked project opened in July 2003 as a massive semi-permanent sound work and off-site exhibition of the contemporary collection of the Museum of London. Stretching across from Hackney Marshes to Redbridge, the M11 Link Road was completed in 1999 after the demolition of 400 homes, including […]

Ellen Mueller
Walking as Artist... 95

Kristina Borg, The Cities Within (2016) Alternative DIY Walk – Vienna, Austria

Kristina Borg “In 2016, the methodology and practice outlined in the previous section (Alternative DIY Walks) resulted in the project The Cities Within. This walk was specific to the city of Vienna (Austria), precisely to the neighbourhoods of Leopoldstadt and Favoriten, the 2nd and the 10th districts respectively. This project was made possible as part […]

Ellen Mueller
Walking as Artist... 95

Robert Bean and Barbara Lounder, Breathing-in-the-Breathable (2017-19)

“Breathing-in-the-Breathable is an on-going collaborative artwork by Robert Bean and Barbara Lounder. Their project presents walking as experience, public art and pedagogy. To date, the artists have contextualized this artwork in relation to four sites; 1) Breathing-in-the-Breathable: an annotated walk (2017) on the ruins of a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Polish town of Sokołowsko; 2) […]

Ellen Mueller

V.O.N.A.R.

Vocal Orientation And Navigation Through development and practice of Driftsinging.

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