Source: Libraries as gardens — Urban Tree Festival Invitation to live webinar about collective and collaborative digital mapping and sound walking as an ecological form of art, by Geert Vermeire and Fred Adam, CGeomap. Saturday, May 16th – 12 noon, at the Urban Tree Festival in London. Duration about 45 minutes. (Free) tickets can be booked via the site of … More
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LIBRARIES AS GARDENS
Libraries as Gardens is a creative project that wants to geolocate and map, on a global scale, the before, during and after of the coronavirus lockdown, through sound recordings and the stories of people, told in the libraries of their houses during quarantine and about the public gardens that they remember. The recordings are simultaneously transferred in an augmented audio … More
Libraries as Gardens
This creative project wants to geolocate and map, on a global scale, the before, during and after of the coronavirus lockdown, through recordings of the stories of people, told in the libraries of their homes during quarantine and about the public gardens that they remember. The recordings are simultaneously transferred in an augmented audio project, with sound walks for the … More
Walk to Listen / Listen to Walk – Balam Ronan
“Living, in the deepest sense, is something that nobody can do for us. At work you can substitute someone, but not when walking. That is the great criterion.” Frédéric Gros Nowadays Cit… A short essay by Balam Ronan Source: Walk to Listen / Listen to Walk – balam ronan
Songs about Walking
Facebook-page – Songs about walking, to smoothen the days ahead during self-isolation at home. Feel free to add your own selection of Walking Songs. Source: Songs about Walking
Songs about Walking
Facebook-page Songs about walking, to smoothen the days ahead during self-isolation at home. Feel free to add your own selection of Walking Songs. https://www.facebook.com/groups/271086013225865/
Spring walking I – Walking with cows by Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt
Shared by the author on WAN – mailing list. Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt
The Brooklyn Rail magazine- MAR 2020 – about walking
The Brooklyn Rail is a journal committed to providing an independent forum for visual arts, culture, and politics throughout New York City and beyond. Suggested by contributor Julie Poitras Santos. Source: Critics Page – MAR 2020
Des marches, démarches
Des marches, démarches, closing exhibition of this walking event in FRAC Marseille from February till March 2020. In French. Source: Des marches, démarches
A travel agency to get lost | Happy tourists | Germany
Happy tourists is the first travel agency which invites people to get lost. Source: A travel agency to get lost | Happy tourists | Germany
Artic Sound Walk – Horatio Clare BBC Radio 3 Slow Radio – 3×15′ episodes – only days left to listen
Freezing and Finding Episode 1: With a rich, varied and immersive listening experience, in the latest of his Slow Radio Sound Walks, as the winter draws and the snows threaten, Horatio Clare follows Greenland’s Arctic Circle Trail from the west coast of the country towards the vast ice-sheet. In a series of alien worlds, the scapes are changing all the … More
Sound Walk September 2019 winners
For the Sound Walk September Awards 2019, over 60 contributions were accepted, connected to over 80 events worldwide. Accepted pieces were sound walks, or walking pieces, created in 2019. A huge variety of formats, approaches and subjects from a wide range of creative disciplines, including arts, heritage and history, health and wellbeing, silence and architecture, social practices, journalism, performance, literature and … More
Lion’s Holt
I journeyed from Aberystwyth to Lympstone, involving 5 trains - the last leg was the branch line from Exeter Central down to Exmouth. As you will know, Central was the high level station operated by Southern, who also controlled the Exmouth branch, g...
Call for submissions Streetnotes : “Walking in the Digital City”
Dr Claudia Brazzale and Blake Morris are editing a special issue of Streetnotes, a peer-reviewed biannual journal for the interdisciplinary study of the city, its lifeways and social relations, with a special concern for the cultural and aesthetic forms that arise through its traffic. A new generation of artists working in and across disciplines – dance/choreography, performance, visual art, music, … More
Walk, listen, and create
Welcome to the new home of walking artists.
What’s in Ironbridge other than an iron bridge?
A trip to Ironbridge for Gillian's 60th, regrettably coinciding with the 4th World Congress of Psychogeography in Huddersfield which regular readers will know I was part of in 2018. Spookily, many of the others at the Ironbridge gathering were from H...
Impaled on nails of ice, bareback ladies had fish
Regular readers will know of earlier reviews of Mr Robert Fripp's current ensemble: Aylesbury, September 2015. Aylesbury, September 2016. Liverpool, November 2018. so please take comments therein as read, and I will add an incremental review from the R...
Impaled on nails of ice, bareback ladies had fish
Regular readers will know of earlier reviews of Mr Robert Fripp's current ensemble: Aylesbury, September 2015. Aylesbury, September 2016. Liverpool, November 2018. so please take comments therein as read, and I will add an incremental review from the R...
Llanfihangel Genau’r Glyn [Llandre]
In search of Castell Gwallter. The castle was a text book motte and bailey (lat/long 52.462459, -4.028706), presumably of timber that was built by a Norman invader (Walter de Bec), captured by a Welsh chieftain (Owain Gwynedd), retaken by the Frenc...
Llanfihangel Genau’r Glyn [Llandre]
In search of Castell Gwallter. The castle was a text book motte and bailey (lat/long 52.462459, -4.028706), presumably of timber that was built by a Norman invader (Walter de Bec), captured by a Welsh chieftain (Owain Gwynedd), retaken by the Frenc...