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SWS26 New 2026

Block 1307: An Uncommon History

In 1307, walking becomes composition. A single Midtown Manhattan block unfolds through shifting audio, where hidden histories surface, overlap, and dissolve according to how you choose to move.

Sound walk
SWS26 2025

A WG on the Spree – Teepeeland

It's possible to live in another reality, right in the middle of Berlin. Hear and learn about one of the most unique places of the German capital: Teepeeland, a "WG" - a shared apartment - and cultural venue in the open air next to the city's river.

Happened
Marŝarto25 Marŝarto26 SWS25 SWS26  

Online and Grand Jury debrief and onboarding

2026-02-25 13:00
Online

This online get-together is exclusively open to the Online Jury and Grand Juries of SWS and Marŝarto. We will debrief the outgoing jurors, and onboard the new jurors.

Happened
SWS24  

Soundwalks with walk · listen · create

2024-09-21 12:00
Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton, UK

Walkshop on composing sound walks

Featured SWS25 31 Dec, 2025

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

Featured Marŝarto24 27 Jan, 2025

The Marŝarto24 winners have arrived

We've come to the conclusion of the second instalment of the Marŝarto Awards, complementing our existing Sound Walk September Awards. Where the SWS Awards focus on sound walks, the Marŝarto Awards recognise walking art, excluding sound walks, produced in the previous year.

SWS24 2024  

From the Everyday to the Unexpected – exploring our world through sound with Diane Hope

A video recording of a Sound Walk September Café in which Diane Hope shares her enthusiasms and expertise on location recording. The recording includes a lively discussion among audio producers and sound walk composers on a range of topics from recording in a sauna to what binaural microphone is best on a windy day…

SWS23 SWS24 2024  

Meet the Award winners of the Sound Walk September 2023

At the start of Sound Walk September 2024, meet Ed Coulson, make of Headford Lace Trail and Dawn matheson producer of Semi-Colon (How to Draw a Tree), the Sound Walk September Award winners from 2023, in conversation about everything sound walks.

Sound walk
SWS20 2020

30 Days of Walking: Sound Walk September 2020

30 Days of Walking is a global collaborative sound walk project inviting participants to record and upload audio from walks taken during designated time slots in September. The collected recordings will form a continuous soundscape representing diverse locations and experiences worldwide.

Happened
walk · listen · café SWS21  

Walking as a Question, crossing walking, writing and listening

2021-09-14 18:00
Online

Some years ago Kristine Samson und Sanne Krogh Grogh proposed the Audio Paper bringing together audio, performance and text in a new and hybrid format. This concept was extended into a new form of audio walk, during the Walking Arts Encounters / Conference in Prespa. Writers of these audio papers are invited to talk at this Walk Listen Café.

Walking as a Question
Happened
walk · listen · café SWS21  

Escaping Accelerated Reality

2021-09-28 18:00
Online

Slovenian dramaturge, publicist and producer Jasmina Založnik will engage in a conversation about the performativity of walking in the context of art. More precisely, she is interested in a sound walk as a form that evades spectacularity of art products and as a form of slowing down.

Sound Walk City · prelude
Happened
walk · listen · café SWS21  

Conversations about Decoding Nature

2021-09-09 18:00
Online

Close your eyes to connect with sound on a deeper level. Discern the possibility of interspecies symbiosis within a shared landscape.

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Articles on WLC

Featured SWS25 02 Nov, 2025

Announcing the SWS25 shortlist

It's been an eventful year, but we have some good news: It's the SWS25 shortlist.

Curated news 14 Oct, 2025

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

Featured SWS24 13 Jan, 2025

The winners of SWS24

This is the second year that the winner and honourable mention for the Sound Walk September Awards walk away with cash. Compared to last year, we were able to double the prize money, to 500 euros for the winner, and 200 euros for the honourable mention. Who walks away with the prizes?

Featured SWS24 02 Dec, 2024

Listening through layers of land

With Shore Land, JeeYeung Lee has created a sound walk that contemplates Chicago's lakefront as a liminal space between land and water, simultaneously a public good, treaty violation, and strategy to suppress insurgence.

Articles elsewhere

Ellen Mueller 100

Interview with Geert Vermeire

As part of the release of the hardcover/e-book release of my book, Walking as Artistic Practice (softcover comes out in April!), I’m going to be publishing some brief interviews with the various artists, authors, researchers, creatives, collectives, and platforms whose art practice, written material, or other works I cite and mention. My 19th interview in […]

Ellen Mueller
Ellen Mueller 95

Interview with Babak Fakhamzadeh

As part of the release of the hardcover release of my book, Walking as Artistic Practice (softcover comes out in April!), I’m going to be publishing some brief interviews with the various artists, authors, researchers, creatives, collectives, and platforms whose art practice, written material, or other works I cite and mention. My eighth interview in […]

Ellen Mueller
Jo Scott: interme... 95

Honourable Mention in the SWS Awards 2022

Delighted to say that my sound walk, ‘Wanders in the (wild) smart city’ was one of the 3 runners up … More

Jo Scott
Jo Scott: interme... 90

Shortlisting for Sound Walk September Awards 2022

Really delighted that my sound walk ‘Wanders in the (wild) smart city’ has been shortlisted for the Sound Walk September … More

Jo Scott

Events

Happened
walk · listen · café SWS21  

Sound walking in the Anthropocene

2021-09-07 18:00
Online

Sound artist Anne Cecilie Lie invites to a discussion around sound walking in the Anthropocene and raises questions about global technology and ecology.

Sound Walk City · prelude

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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