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Sound walk
2017

Deutung 3.0

Simon Deuter - art historian, curator or artist himself? - offers a highly entertaining audio tour of Kassel with Deutung 3.0. The art tour starts with informative reflections on various works of art in public space. Then Deuter gradually lets you in on closely guarded secrets of the art world. But he also seems to be pursuing his own goals. Only which ones? And what role do you play?

Sound walk
SWS21 2021

SoHo: A Retrospective

This GPS-triggered audio tour of SoHo, New York City, features narration by lifelong resident Yukie Ohta, founder of the SoHo Memory Project. It includes stops at notable sites such as Housing Works Bookstore, Ken Hiratsuka's sidewalk carvings, and the Judd Foundation, linking historical facts with personal memories from local artists and authors.

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Making theatre in a time of COVID-19: an audio tour

The British Academy
14 - 16 Jun, 2021
St Paul's Church, Bedford Street, London WC2E 9ED, UK

Why does live performance matter? How does it help us to connect with others? Has living through a pandemic changed it? In March 2020, the doors of theatres and other cultural venues closed. During this period of crisis, theatre makers and theatregoers alike began to reflect on what is lost when live performance cannot take

Curated news 23 Jun, 2022

Wilkes University launches audio walking tour, retrospective on Agnes | Times Leader

WILKES-BARRE — With a campus that runs right up against the Susquehanna River Levee, Wilkes University suffered substantial damage when the Agnes flood struck in 1972. Recovery costs were in the… Source: Wilkes University launches audio walking tour, retrospective on Agnes | Times Leader

Curated news 19 Jan, 2022

Interview with Mitch Secrett about his VoiceMap audio tour in Melbourne – YouTube

Great trailer for a Voice Map audio tour

Walking piece
2018

Reykjavik Art Tour

Explore Reykjavik's artistic locations, museums, and popular viewing points throughout the city.

Sound walk
2015

München, Altstadtrundgang

Dieser Audioguide entführt Sie in das Alte München.

Walking piece
2012

Victoria Park Memoryscape Trail

The Victoria Park Memoryscape trail will take you on a historical tour around Victoria Park.

Walking piece
2014

The Alternative Tour of Little Bredy

This audio tour is an adaptation of the performance ‘The Tour of All Tours’ that was commissioned by Inside Out Dorset Festival for the village of Littlebredy. It offers a tour of the tours, real and imaginary, that cross the village and in so doing creates both a critical reflection on the nature of tours and

Sound walk
SWS19 2019

Anytown audio tour

This post introduces a fictional fantasy audio walking tour designed for any town or city, featuring imaginative encounters with local landmarks and characters. The tour requires common urban elements such as a drain cover, tree, flower, pavement, café, postbox, park, pond, and bin to complete the experience.

Walking piece
2014

East Cast’s East London

31 different locations around East London – there is no specific route.  EastCast is a radio show (ResonanceFm) and podcast covering arts, culture and community in East London. This audio tour is a geo-located version of the show with interviews, features and sound pieces attached to a wide range of different locations all over East London.

Walking piece
SWS24 2023

Truth Be Told: Virginia

An audio tour of historically Black neighborhoods across four cities in Virginia.

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Walking pieces

Sound walk
SWS22 2022

Memento mori: a walk through Soho

Using John Snow's 1854 report on cholera, this walk is an opportunity to re-see Soho, to look with new eyes at the people around us and at ourselves, all of us flesh-covered bones whose hearts are still beating. Remember death, remember life.

Walking piece
2018

Douglastown Detour Audiotour

This piece features a collage of field recordings and historical stories from a unique village on Quebec's Gaspé coast, recounting memories from two generations ago. It guides listeners along the town’s central sites, connecting present locations with their past, and is a more extensive, downloadable version related to the mobile app of the same name.

Walking piece
2016

Carpenters Road Lock

Created by Penny Wrout – an audio trail from the Aquatics Centre via the waterways around Carpenters Road Lock, talking about the history of the waterways here.

Articles elsewhere

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Treffen der Audiowalk-Community in Leipzig

Aus Bremen, Hannover, Augsburg, Frankfurt/Main, Weimar, Halle, Hamburg, Berlin sind sie angereist – Audiowalkpraktiker*innen tauschen sich, initiiert von storydive, in den den wunderbaren Räumen des Kulturkosmos Leipzig aus und schmieden gemeinsam Pläne. In mir hat ein Satz aus dem Audiowalk „Kein Schiff wird kommen“ von Katrin Bretschneider (Konzept und Text) und Ilona Marti (Sounddesign) seinen …

Ruben Kurschat
The Tour of All T... 90

Audio Tour Experiments

I recently wrote about tours whose contents are disconnected from or only loosely connected to their geography. I followed this observation up today with an experiment. The idea was, to make an audio tour that is based upon a text from one ti...

Bill Aitchison

guerrilla geography

Tactical, radical, creative, unusual and/or surprising geographies that challenge people to think differently about their relationships with places.

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