Search
My feed
Browse within

In this collection

Only showing sub-collections with more than 1 item.
Sub-collection

canal

Sub-collection · 12 items
Featured selection

Highlights

A curated starting point from this collection.
Walking piece
Walking piece Marŝarto25 2024

Water, Earth, and Peace: Coming home to where we come from

Walking in transitional, interstitial spaces where Water and Earth meet is special. From walking-with and sensing the presence of rock and water bodies, on the banks of Lake Prespa (Greece) or the River Maas (Holland), it emerges to feel Water as home and relational peace quality, which inspires humans to create. To co-create and find forms for joint walking, artistic work, and ecosomatic practice, as ways of storytelling with Earth & Water.

WAC25: Walking Home / Walking in Transition
Walking piece
Walking piece Marŝarto24 2024

Libations

Drawing on an old local folk-tale that contains remnants of ritual, Libations was a 30-day project involving listening to the land and multi-species others, walking, and pouring a libation of water as an offering each day.

Happened
walkingevent  

Wetlands: Watery walk and collective climate fictions

Walkative Project
2023-08-26 13:00

This speculative walk will explore the physical and imagined landscape of some of London’s future islands, that could emerge, should the Thames barrier ever fail, in the context of rising sea levels.

Happened
walkingevent  

If a drop of water falls…

Ellie Bryce
2022-03-20 13:00
Boulevard Poincaré 77, 1070 Anderlecht, Belgium

Urban participatory procession in Brussels city centre (about 1h), following the old route of the Senne river and reflecting on its past, present and future. 20th March (14:00), 22 & 23 March (18:00). https://forms.gle/8dtCPz9wkTUMAgaMA

post 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.

post Featured SWS24 21 Nov, 2024

Encountering the many forms of water

With Only glaciers know, Yanran Bi discusses the complicated interconnections between human beings and the landscape of Iceland through a sonic documentary and poetic fiction.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS24 2024

Heat Walk

What does the city sound like in extreme heat? This is an 8 minute and 49 second composite recording documenting the experience of walking in 100 (often 110 degree plus) temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1954

Water Walk

John Cage's 1959 score, consisting of of a list of properties, a floor plan showing the placements of instruments and objects, three pages with a timeline (one minute each) with descriptions and pictographic notations of occurrence of events, and a list of notes "regarding some of the actions to be made in the order of occurrence.”

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS21 2021

Freight, walking with history

"Freight, 1893" is a one-hour sound walk featuring local voices reading a historic list of freight carried on the Liverpool to Leeds canal, accompanied by a soundscape recorded on a barge journey between Goole and Leeds. The project animates industrial-era canal freight records with regional pronunciations, offering an immersive experience that highlights the heritage of Britain’s early industrial transport routes.

Sound walk
Sound walk 2018

Listening Underwater – Mooloolaba

Listening Underwater is an audio project featured at the Horizon Festival 2018 that uses GPS-triggered soundscapes to reveal over 100 aquatic acoustic environments along the Sunshine Coast. The sound walks highlight underwater ecosystems from locations worldwide, offering a non-invasive way to engage with changing aquatic habitats and the impacts of climate change.

Walking piece
Walking piece Marŝarto23 2023

Whispers of Resilience: Maasai Women’s Journey Under the African Sky

Amidst the African landscape, three Maasai women adorned in vibrant beadwork elegantly carry water vessels, embodying tradition, endurance, and ancestral stories under the vast sky.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS21 2021

Bellevue Botanical Garden “Sound Walk”

The post describes a return visit to a walking area featuring new signage and gravel, with early spring flowers including jasmine and daffodils. It also details a sound walk recording ambient sounds such as birds, frogs, walking on different surfaces, and nearby road noise.

Does our archive help you out? Help us by supporting us, today!
Donate

Walking pieces

Walking piece
Walking piece SWS24 2023

Love Letters to Dugongs: A Walking Postcard

This sound-walk created by Bronwin Patrickson is part Dugong Love Letter, part walking souvenir of a 2023 two week art-science residency engaging with the sparkling ecology of the island, Weaving Waters on Yarun. (Yarun being the traditional name for Bribie Island off the coast of Queensland, on the east coast of Australia, which is shaped just like a Dugong.) The 2023 Weaving Waters Residency facilitated by Tracey Benson and Treecreate Studios brought together a diverse group of artists and scientists from around the world.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS24 2024

Rooms

Soundwalk with sound objects installation

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS20 2020

Shorelines

Shorelines is a collaborative project on writing and reciting, focussed on the dividing line between land and water.

Sound walk
Sound walk 2020

Hidden Waves

Sound artist Gemma’s installation "Hidden Sounds" leads audiences through Utrecht to experience the city's canal soundscapes via hydrophone recordings. The route includes three underwater listening points where participants hear sounds transmitted through water, highlighting differences in soundwave speed between air and water.

Articles on WLC

post Featured Marŝarto23 26 Dec, 2023

Towards the Severn… Towards the Sea

With The (Future) Wales Coast Path, Alison Neighbour, through a cooperation between Wales and India, Alison Neighbour seeks to raise awareness of the impermanence of the land many of us take for granted, and to open up a local and global conversation about flooding, sea level rise, and adaptation. This walking piece is one of the shortlisted

post Featured SWS23 14 Dec, 2023

Along the water’s edge

Keira Simmons envisions the future of Port Adelaide in 2100. The sound walk takes listeners on a journey through the past, present, and potential future of the region, illustrating the ecological, infrastructural, and social transformations over time.

post Featured SWS22 11 Dec, 2022

Walking together into a better future 

Building awareness for a more planet- and people-friendly Tayport.

post Curated news 07 Nov, 2022

How you can explore Seattle’s waterways with ‘Saltwater Soundwalk’ | The Seattle Times

You can listen to this 55-minute, site-specific audio piece from home or on a long walk along the water between Gas Works Park and the Fremont Bridge. Source: How you can explore Seattle’s waterways with ‘Saltwater Soundwalk’ | The Seattle Times

Articles elsewhere

Walkspace 90

Pathways of knowing

In this poetic photo essay, Emma Plover walks with edges, inviting the reader to step into closer relationship with their everyday journeys and environments.

Walkspace
Reading and Walking 75

49. Karen Solie, Wellwater

Karen Solie’s Wellwater arrived last week, before it won the Governor-General’s Award, and its ascension (not the first accolade Solie’s writing has received) prompted me to bring it along to read on the train. It’s astonishing, so much so that I don’t know what to say about it. My first reading, against the sound of … Continue reading 49. Karen Solie, Wellwater →

Ken Wilson
The Tour of All T... 85

An Aquatic Themed Tour of Reclamation Street, Hong Kong

 Reclamation Street on the Kowloon Peninsula is built on land extended into the sea and runs about one mile north to south. This performance involved walking from the southern end of the street to the northern end of it obeying one basic rule. Thi...

Bill Aitchison
THE LRM

January 2025 First Sunday

UPDATE on Sundays wander: The weather forecast is pretty grim at the moment, and various local routes are closed due to flooding or snow. Hopefully this will be cleared by Sunday, and I will do everything I can to be there 2pm at the Corn Exchange. ...

THE LRM

Events

Happened
walkingevent  

Place-making and the Rivers of Lewisham: Podcasts and Report Launch

Centre for Urban and Community Research (Goldsmiths)
2024-06-29 09:00
Multiple locations

Join urban sociologists Dr Emma Jackson and Dr Louise Rondel to celebrate the launch of the Place-making and the Rivers of Lewisham podcasts and project report, hosted by the Centre for Urban and Community Research (Goldsmiths).  As part of this event, you are invited to join us to walk along two stretches of Lewisham’s rivers, from Lower

Happened
walkingevent  

Water connections Prespa

2022-09-20 17:30
Online

We invite you to explore Prespa, a national park and lake at the border of Greece, Albania and North Macedonia, and a venue of art practice for almost two decades. Art and science, biology and ecology meet in an evening with two panels about Prespa, water and arts, in a dialogue with artists, researchers, scientists and ecologists, a confluence of the Prespa lake with Oika in the US, the El Hondo Wetland in Spain, the wet meadows of Somerset Levels and the waters of Yarun (Bribie Island) in Australia.

Happened
walkingevent SWS21  

Hoo Peninsula Soundings

Ian Thompson
2021-09-25 09:00
Strood, Rochester, UK

Join sound recordist and artist Ian Thompson on this walk across the Hoo Peninsula from Strood to Gravesend, following the route of the old Thames and Medway Canal. Participants are invited to listen closely to the variety of soundscapes we’ll pass through on the way. If you have a sound recording device (even a smart

Happened
walkingevent SWS21  

River Echoes : Deep Listening Walk #6

26 Sep, 2021 · All day
Online

Tune in to a series of Live Streams from artist Kathy Hinde as she follows the River Frome from its source into the city of Bristol on World Rivers Day. Using hydrophones to access the usually inaudible soundworld of the river Frome, Kathy will pause for moment during her walk to live stream the sounds

Links

url

100 Circles

Lenzie Moss is a designated Local Nature Reserve in East Dunbartonshire, near the city of Glasgow, UK. It is a boggy and marshy area with a history of peat extraction. The Moss now serves as a vital habitat for diverse wildlife, including water vole and bog rosemary, and the green hairstreak butterfly, alongside areas of silver birch woodland. My name is David Overend. I moved to the edge of Lenzie Moss in the summer of 2023 and began to regularly take the 25 minute walk round its border, sometimes daily. I have walked with friends, my children, and once with an expert on water vole habitats. Mainly I have walked alone: as a break from work; to start the day with some fresh air; in search of kestrels and deer. Every time I complete the circle, I notice, learn or experience something new. The walk has become something of a ritual, a way of marking the change in the seasons. Since I started to follow this route, I have had the feeling that there is more to discover and that this repeated circular walk might lead me somewhere. So, I am walking it 100 more times, each time with a different person from the local community, or a visiting artist or researcher with some interest in peatlands. As I share these encounters on this blog, I hope that a co-authored text will emerge, bringing a series of walked dialogues to a wider readership, and perhaps finding a way for the Moss to tell its stories. If you would like to be part of this project and join me for a walk round Lenzie Moss, please get in touch.
David Overend
Personal websites
url

Anja Podreka

Website about my work
Anja Podreka
Personal websites
url

Helen Ottaway

Helen Ottaway is a composer, pianist, installation artist and curator. While a student at Goldsmiths’, University of London in the 1980s, she studied briefly with John Cage and up to 1998 worked as a performer, musician and composer with experimental music and theatre groups, touring nationally and internationally. In 1999, with arts administrator Steve Ehrlicher, she formed Artmusic to promote and produce collaborative,site-specific and participatory work. As lead artist she has had extensive experience of working with artists from different disciplines and curating and producing her own and other artists work. As a composer she has received commissions from BBC2, Salisbury Festival, Bath Film Festival, the Bernardi Music Group and others. Landscape, water and nature provide inspiration and and are recurring themes in a style that is predominantly minimalist with influences from folksong and English pastoral and church music traditions.
Helen Ottaway
Personal websites

scurrifunge

To work or walk hurriedly. from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

Added by Marlene Creates
Problem?

Encountered a problem? Report it to let us know.

  • Include the page on which you encountered the problem.
  • Describe what happened.
  • Describe what you expected to happen.
Follow us