Audiowalk
Highlights
Smugglers’ Run Heritage Trail
Smugglers Run is a one-of-a-kind cultural trail on Mudeford Quay (Dorset, UK). The trail includes 16 publicly-accessible signs that incorporate text, illustrations, models, rubbings, and audio re-enactments of the real-life smugglers of Christchurch.
Hear Our Houston
Hear Our Houston is an archive of community-made audio walking tours (2011–2015) that capture personal stories, memories, and perspectives from across the city. Once an interactive platform, it remains a rich record of Houston’s voices, places, and shared creativity.
Practical Grandeur: An Audio Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge
Meet Henna and Michael from the Gesso team at 15 Centre Street for a self-guided mobile audio walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. A birthday toast to follow in Brooklyn Bridge Park for Emily Warren Roebling, the female chief engineer who completed the bridge and was born this month. Now an iconic feature of the New
Uncovering, and re-discovering, Nantucket
"Head, Hand and Heart" takes participants on a journey across Nantucket Island's history, culture, and nature. The project was conceived during an artist residency and explores various themes through sensory storytelling, aiming to engage audiences beyond mere consumption.
Lucas’ Kopfkino
While the children in the auditorium look spellbound at the screen, movie character Lucas is bored. After all, he already knows exactly what will happen next. Every time the film is shown, exactly the same things happen. And each time, Lucas plays only an unimportant supporting role, while his friends Anna and Yassin take center stage. But that’s over now! Lucas leaves the movie and sets out to have an adventure of his own in the real world.
Ciudad Cruel Imaginary Flight (CCIF)
This audio walk composition invites listeners to choose a walking direction and follow instructions for an imaginative urban experience, which can also be experienced while standing still. It is a development from the 2019 book *Ciudad Cruel/Città Crudele* and incorporates music created during a 2014 improvisation workshop at Teatro Rossi Aperto in Pisa.
It must have been dark by then
Grab some headphones, choose a route and create a map of stories and sounds on this experimental literary audio walk Shift between your and others’ worlds as you listen to audio, music and narration collected from the swamps of Louisiana, empty Latvian villages and the edges of the Tunisian Sahara, while walking the streets of
Walgett Freedom Rides
Walgett was where the Freedom Ride exploded onto the national stage. It was the place, as Charlie Perkins said, which was the first big test of moral courage. “Are you with it? Or are you against it? Are you fair dinkum? Or are you not?” It was the place where the Freedom Rides students found
Walking pieces
Myall Creek Memorial Soundtrail
The Myall Creek audio walk explores the 1838 massacre and its ongoing impact, highlighting moments of justice and reconciliation across generations. Created with local community collaboration, the geo-locative experience invites participants to engage deeply with this continuing story of national acknowledgment and healing.
Articles on WLC
How to judge an audio walk – by PAPOLA – Hamish’s Substack
Seeing as Walk Listen Create’s just wrapped up their Sound Walk September, and is, as far as I can see, the only global sound walk competition, perhaps it’s time to look more rigorously into how one is to actually judge a sound (referred to here as both audio/sound) walk: albeit what an audio walk actually
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Articles elsewhere
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 …
Was kann Audiowalk 2025? Webinar
Mit O-Tönen Geschichten erzählen ... Orte zum Klingen bringen ... Was passiert, wenn wir ausgetretene Pfade verlassen und Neues wagen? Wir tauchen ein in die Welt der Audiotouren und laden ein, Stadterkundung mal anders zu denken. Im Web-Seminar von Soundmarker und Guidemate.
SOUNDS IN THE CITY: Öffentliche Räume mit dem Ohr gestalten
Interdisziplinäre Fachtagung in Hannover, Freitag, 14. März 2025, 10-17 Uhr Der interdisziplinäre Fachtag beleuchtet die Frage, ob und wie die städtische Umwelt als lange vernachlässigter Klangraum gestaltet und neu entdeckt werden kann. Dazu stellen Expert*innen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz Methoden und Beispiele aus Raumplanung, Kunst und Akustik vor.„Sounds in the City – Öffentliche …
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 …
Events
Audio Walking: An Introduction to Recording, Producing and Editing skills
Three fascinating workshops shifting from an introduction to audio field recording for audio-walks and soundscapes, through to actual field recording and then editing. We will make a work in prgress and communicate with a group of artists working on a similar workshop series in Sweden with Andrew Stuck. We will hope to produce a work in progress to share!
Links
Webb Avenue and Black Hill Audio Walk
StoryDive on the Google Play Store