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Sounding Art Trail – sharing soundscapes
The Sounding Art Trail project is funded through a grant from the British Council’s Connections through Culture fund and is set to raise awareness of climate change, by sharing soundscape recordings along long distance trails. The project included site-specific productions, sound-focused research and participatory processes with local communities. Described as a “collaborative, trans local journey”
• Ascent: A Boulder Soundwalk
Inspired by composer Divya Maus' relationship to the Rocky Mountains as first an immigrant from Germany, a local, and then a returning visitor, ASCENT is a classical music experience installed in Boulder Colorado's Scott Carpenter Park that radically increases the accessibility of traditional choral concerts.
Conjuring the Threshold
A 10-minute ritual of repair responding to a denied pedestrian crossing at the Greek-Turkish border. The performance transforms an administrative wound into a poetic threshold through a physical "suture" and a bilingual GPS soundscape.
Artist-in-Residence at Canaveral National Seashore – Atlantic Center for the Arts
Applications open May 3, 2022 for the 2023 AIR program dates: February 11 – March 18, 2023 ACA Soundscape Field Station at Canaveral National Seashore is a partnership between Atlantic Center for the Arts and Canaveral National Seashore. It is the first of its kind in the United States dedicated to preservation of natural sound,
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Noise as Material: Hanoi’s Soundscapes Revisited – Urbanist Hanoi
A city of over 8 million people, there is no denying that Hanoi is noisy. For those of us not born here, it may take some adjustment, but in time we relax and pay little heed to the neighbors’ barking dog, the chorus of child’s play, or the constant hum of motorbike madness. We learn
• Louisiana Walk
A walk piece by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, curated by Bruce Ferguson for the landmark group exhibition Walking and Thinking and Walking, at the Louisiana Art Museum in Denmark, 1996. The walk leads the audience through the back end of the museum, by the sea, through a garden, mixing fictional images evoked by the narration with factual imagery seen by the listener.
Walking pieces
Mosses and Marshes Art Trail
The Fenn's, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses Sound and Sculpture Art Trail, launching 3rd July 2021 through October, offers a 3-mile immersive walk combining soundscapes from UK and Australian wetlands with sculptures exploring measurement and landscape themes. The trail features headphones-triggered audio via the Echoes app, integrates wildlife recordings and poetry, and is part of the Mosses and Marshes art project led by Andrew Howe and Kim V. Goldsmith.
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Articles on WLC
Dublin can be heaven with new soundtrack app for visitors to St Stephen’s Green – The Irish Times
Dublin’s city centre park joins Central Park and Regent’s Park in having a specially tailored Soundwalk composition designed to enhance the visitor experience Source: Dublin can be heaven with new soundtrack app for visitors to St Stephen’s Green – The Irish Times
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How Can Natural Soundscapes Provide a Refuge from Our Hyper-Stimulated World? ‹ Literary Hub
Ever give much thought to what types of sounds make you feel good? Maybe you have, but not in a fully conscious way. When that question is asked, most of us default to a choice of some type of musi… Source: How Can Natural Soundscapes Provide a Refuge from Our Hyper-Stimulated World? ‹ Literary Hub
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Articles elsewhere
Two events, one of which is cancelled! Sunday 11 September
A boot from the installation which will be happening at Bath Jewish Burial Ground resonates with the Orwellian culture wars currently rumbling in the city. Sydney Gardens Gala…. a skirmish in the culture warsOn September 11 I was planning to split my day between setting up the Honouring Esther installation and hosting a couple of walks in Sydney Gardens, Bath. This was to have been a reprise of the work I completed last November on Botany, Empire and Deep Time. I was looking f [...]
Events
The London Ear: sound-themed guided walk
Listen your way round the City of London on a Sunday morning, and find out about its fascinating sounds – past, present and future. A guided walk like no other, The London Ear explores the City of London through the medium of sound. The walk blends real-time listening with stories about sounds from the City’s
• Sounds Wild and Broken with author David G. Haskell
Meet the authors who are writing about walking and the landscapes through which we walk, at walk · listen · create’s Walking Writers Salons. We are delighted to have biologist and award-winning nature writer David George Haskell join us in October, talking about “Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic marvels, Evolution's Creativity and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction" in which he explores the origins of song, music and speech across all species.
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