Boudha at nightIt's cool at night, and there are familiar faces everywhere I walk in Boudha. At the stupa I meet friends from Mexico, Hong Kong, Poland, we stop to eat momos together, and share stories and hopes. We walk clockwise, together and apart, joining the street dogs who are always here.Location: Boudhanath, Kathmandu, NepalLength: 2 kmCompanions: severalDate: 11 June, 2024 [...]

A sound adventure in the Białowieża primeval forest with Polish recordist Izabela Dłużyk. Source: BBC Radio 4 – Izabela in the Forest

To Llundain, to see in the new year, inter alia. Thursday 29th was an outing to Fulham to play in the EBU Year End Open Pairs event. Partner was the ever understanding Jerry F, who tolerated a number of schoolgirl errors on my part to allow us 49...

From my doctoral research a project is emerging, 100 leaves from Auschwitz. On Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 I circumnavigated Birkenau. On Armistice Day 2021 I collected 100 leaves from Birkenau. I’m making a memorial chapbook for Holoca...

You can only go to Auschwitz for the first time once.When I walked from my hotel the first time I had no idea what was hiding from me in plain view in the landscape. I didn’t know anything. I didn’t know that my hotel, the Polin, carried the Yiddish name for Oswiecim. I didn’t know… Continue reading You can only go to Auschwitz for the first time once →

I was always alone at A* but I wanted to be a tour guide, to gather others around me and walk with them and tell them stories, to show them the edges, the hinterland, the connective tissue, the limina, the penumbric spaces.I wasn’t interested in the flora, I passed over it without seeing, without noticing.… Continue reading Alone at A* →

John Beauchamp's soundwalk Unseen is set in Warsaw, and recalls hidden stories and lost sounds from places wiped off the map. John's piece is available on Josh Kopeček's Echoes, and received a honourable mention at Sound Walk September 2019. Here, John talks about his work.

Karolina and Ania Szarkowicz give us a new European deck of task cards, for the Polish city of Poznań. Amongst the oldest and largest cities in Poland, Poznań is known for its renaissance old town, its dialect, and the traditional Saint Martin’s ...