Instructions If you want to walk, try walking on your “Main Street”. Walk toward an art gallery. Go into every room and look around. If you don’t find an art gallery, make one. Continue to move in and out of air-conditioned places. For those of you in the southern hemisphere, central heating will work too.

Hearing Australian Identity : Sites as acoustic spaces, an audible polyphony. By Ros Bandt. Australian identity is a complex interplay of site, language and technology. Sound Installations are powerful tools to access the collective consciousness associated with sites, each one an ever-changing audible polyphony. For each site there are many stories, dissolving around each other,

"Losing sight of the familiar" is a 12-minute audio work by Tracey Benson that explores a suburban walk in Canberra's Belconnen region, focusing on non-visual sensory experiences and memory of significant places. Complemented by the video "Revealing the familiar," the works engage in a dialogue between visual and non-visual elements, reflecting on the interplay of familiar and unfamiliar within this everyday path.

Jussi Parikka’s *Insect Media* conceptualizes media as embodied, non-human forms that converge natural and constructed worlds through resonant milieus rather than binary oppositions. Building on this, an audio walk explores inhabiting these resonant spaces using psychoacoustic techniques to blur boundaries between music, field recordings, and sound art, challenging traditional modes of perception and bodily experience.

Walking West documents the author's dérive along Denver’s Colfax Avenue, combining a continuous sidewalk drawing and GPS tracing with a satellite image capturing the entire street during the performance. The project includes a film screening and gallery exhibition, exploring Colfax’s social and cultural dynamics through a hybrid approach of psychogeography and durational performance art.

This post examines Edward Lear's 1848 journey through the Prespa basin during Ottoman rule, highlighting his use of walking exploration to document landscapes and urban environments through paintings and sketches. It situates Lear's work within 19th-century Romanticism and presents his travelogue as an early form of walking art that contributes to aesthetic and historical understanding of the region.

This paper compares Salameh's psychogeographic work with that of contemporary artists walking urban landscapes, including Patrick Keiller, Alec Soth, Daido Moriyama, and Budhaditya Chattopadhyay. It analyzes their use of photography and soundscapes, along with fictional travelers, to evoke experiences of city life through alternating feelings of alienation and engagement.

The audio-paper discusses the 2019 performative project "Three routes and a detour towards the same end," developed during the "Dramaturgies of the Everyday" research at the University of Porto. The project consists of four guided walks through Porto’s Bonfim district, using distinct approaches to explore urban fictionality, narrative time, and subjective experience within everyday routes.

This paper explores the role of prepositions (with, into, through) in shaping walking performances and site-specific arts through material, spatial, and embodied entanglements. It examines how bodies, objects, and sites interact within participatory, mobile actions and how these narratives translate across installations, audiovisual, and digital media.

This paper examines the role of walking as a cognitive and physical process integral to William Kentridge’s artistic practice, emphasizing how movement within the studio facilitates the emergence of ideas through drawing. It analyzes the studio as a dynamic space where walking and drawing intersect, producing intermedia works that navigate the boundary between possibility and impossibility.

The audio walk *Sensing Body and City* (2020) presents a 12-minute inner stream of consciousness exploring a female* protagonist’s reflections and memories linked to specific locations in Berlin. Through a layered soundscape and voice-over, it weaves personal, non-visible memories encoded in both body and cityscape.

Johanna Steindorf’s audio paper reflects on how pandemic-related sheltering in place has altered experiences of staying at home and walking in the city, drawing on Virginia Woolf’s and Xavier de Maistre’s writings. She discusses her artistic projects, including video and audio walks that explore mediated presences in urban spaces, examining their implications for understanding space and future experiences.

This post discusses an artist-researcher’s adaptation to remote site engagement through immersive 3D audio installations based on the archives of the Brabazon family at Killruddery House & Gardens, Ireland. It details the creation of a binaural sound walk recorded in Brighton's Stanmer Park, exploring the potential for one place to creatively represent another in a practice of walking, listening, and sonic memory.

This paper examines the concept of the female* flaneuse in both theory and practice, highlighting how women’s urban walking challenges the traditionally male-centric flanery through a transgressive and feminist spatial claim. It also explores the author’s performative research on how flanery can reshape cities mentally and physically by emphasizing embodied and emancipatory practices.

Credits music:Rabeca:Mestre Sebastião Rodrigues Pereira. Cantiga Saudade Ai Ai: Fiandeira Dona Conceição Lourenço Leite (in memória) Edição: Paulo Miranda

The paper presents three walking narrative activations in Durban: Ways of Seeing, a student-led sensory and photojournalistic exploration of multicultural neighborhoods; KulturKonneKt, tours connecting citizens with the city’s social heritage and cultural diversity; and The Labyrinth, guided sensory walks for creatives culminating in a community-built labyrinth that links local and global experiences. These projects emphasize observational skills, social cohesion, cultural understanding, and multisensory engagement with urban spaces.

In September and October 2019, the author walked 300 kilometers over 25 days following a basic route while embracing an attitude of mental and emotional wandering rather than strict itinerary adherence. The post explores the conceptual differences between wandering, roaming, and itinerary, highlighting wandering as a creative incubation process and an embodied state during the walking journey.

This audio paper presents the Shadow-walks project, where the author collaborates with local inhabitants worldwide to document meaningful, repeated walks through recorded conversations and improvised vocalizations. The project explores how repeated walking imprints traces on places, making personal narratives and communal memories audible, with adaptations during the COVID-19 pandemic including remote interpretations of these walks.

This paper analyzes Christina Kubisch's Five Electrical Walks, a sound art piece where participants use special headphones to hear electromagnetic waves from urban electric sources. It explores the work’s dual revelation of the city as both an unexpectedly musical organic system and an alien, inorganic soundscape, accompanied by an audio presentation featuring guided walks and synthesized sound examples in multiple languages.

Waterwalk is an interactive, sensory-based guided walk exploring the relationship between internal and external water through meandering movement and thematic engagement with water elements. Designed for a twenty-minute experience, it can be undertaken physically or mentally, in any environment, and includes instructions to drink water during the walk.

The soundwalk “Hythlodaeus / Utopia” is a composition based on the poems “Unfolding the City” by Geert Vermeire and “Siren” by Stefaan van Biesen, incorporating field recordings made during walks in Venice and Antwerp. Created for the Cities and Memory project, the piece draws inspiration from Thomas More’s exploration of Utopia, combining voice, composition, and environmental sounds to form an immersive soundscape.

O artigo analisa o projeto artístico Sincroni-cidades, desenvolvido pela equipa TEPe durante o confinamento por COVID-19, que explorou a experiência de percorrer a cidade a partir da reclusão doméstica através de registros fonográficos, textuais e fotográficos síncronos. O trabalho envolveu participantes geograficamente dispersos em dois continentes e é contextualizado na trilogia Sincronicidades, Diacroni-cidades e Cumpli-cidades, utilizando a arte como metodologia de investigação qualitativa.

The experimental novel *Terminalian Drift* features a narrating voice inhabiting André Cadere's used skin while drifting through a district in Osaka, Japan, exploring the fluid relationships between body, place, and identity. The novel intertwines fictional and historical layers of actual locations to enact a geopoetic process, using specific events—real or imagined—to complicate general historical narratives and embody the city as a mutable personal skin.

This project explores urban experience through multisensory walking practices inspired by Careri's "aesthetic of walking," Canevacci's "polyphony of urban communication," and Larrosa's philosophy of experience. Using binaural audio, it creates immersive soundscapes that map and narrate urban places via sensory memories and embodied interactions, emphasizing the full-body engagement inherent in navigating and inhabiting cities.

The Imaginary Drift is an audio series created during the COVID-19 pandemic that uses GPT-2-generated texts to produce spoken word descriptions of dreamlike, imaginary landscapes inspired by brief walks outside. Developed by new media artist Alan Dunning, the project explores the interplay of human input and AI in constructing narratives of macroscopic and microscopic worlds.

This audio paper presents a conceptual audiovisual tour exploring Westerhoofd, an area northeast of Amsterdam’s A10 ring, through embodied counter-cartography and walking practices. It critically examines the overlooked urban and historical layers within the ring’s liminal spaces, aiming to reanimate perceptions of these largely invisible sites shaped by transit and rapid movement.

Huizkol is an audio paper designed for a 49-minute walk featuring seven sequential binaural beat “updrafts” that mimic different brainwave patterns, from deep sleep Delta waves to stimulating Beta waves and back. Premiered in Chicago in 2020, the piece explores brainwave entrainment and its effects on the body and mind through timed auditory stimulation aligned with the walk’s pacing.

This auditory walk by Niki Matita, with Michael Freerix and Holmer Feldmann, explores Berlin's Victoria-Stadt and Rummelsburg neighborhoods in Lichtenberg. The route includes sites such as Rummelsburg Bay, a reed biotope, former squats, and the first cement buildings in Germany.

This post explores the relationship between soundscape and wellbeing, referencing Murray Schafer and a 2017 University of Sussex study. It discusses the impact of the pandemic on our listening habits and includes original and BBC-recorded nature sounds.

The post details a month-long sound art project titled *Cuerpos sonoros* (2020) conducted in Banff, Alberta, which contrasted natural landscape sounds with local testimonies using field recordings from places, people, and ambient markers. The project combined soundscape concepts, cartography, and acoustic ecology, highlighting walking as an aesthetic practice that balances immersive experience with sound documentation amid challenges of solitude and technical limitations.

Philosopher Frederic Gros highlights walking as a means to slow down and engage deeper perception through rhythm and contemplation. This sound piece, created from landscape sounds, invites listeners to experience a meditative shift in awareness, whether walking or resting.

An audio walk presentation of a second-act libretto from the upcoming opera *RUNE* features a dialogue between the protagonist and future London inhabitants, incorporating layered voices, annotations, and related musical themes. The opera explores themes linking quantum fluctuations at the universe’s origin, creative storytelling in a history-forbidden society, and connections between language, memory, and identity across time and space.

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.