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Sound walk SWS25
2025

An Invitation to Play

An Invitation to Play is a soundwalk that encourages a playful look at the world around us. Using experimental audio and lessons from game studies, we will guide you through a series of playful exercises as you walk through Boston Public Garden.

Sound walk SWS25
2025

The deathless tempest encroaching

Imagine the pond is a stormy sea. The closer you get, the more intense the gale becomes. Take cover behind monuments—listen to what speaks in their wake—and dare to glean what lies in the eye of the storm.

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SOUNDWALKS – 2025 International Computer Music Conference

2025 International Computer Music Conference
8 Jun, 2025 - 14 Jun, 2026
Boston Common, Tremont Street, Boston, MA, USA

CALL for SOUNDWALKS for the 2025 International Computer Music Conference in Boston from June 8-14, 2025. Deadline for proposals 2/15. https://icmc2025.sites.northeastern.edu/call-for-submissions/#soundwalks

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Sounding the Body / Sounding the City

Marion Tu / Nathania Hartley
2019-09-01 15:00
London W1H 7EJ, UK

What happens when our sense of connection weakens? Connection to our surroundings, and also to ourselves. Join artists Marion Tu (US) and Nathania Hartley (UK) for a synchronised walk in Boston and London. During this walk we will realign with the sounds and vibrations of the city, listening and re-orienting ourselves through the rhythmic movement

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Call for soundwalks at ICMC

The 2025 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) is one of the discipline’s largest and most prestigious gatherings of sound artists, composers, media artists, and scholars. This year ICMC will be held in Boston from June 8-14, 2025.

Curated news 18 Sep, 2023

Little Amal Begins Her US Walk in Boston – Sampan

A 10-year-old Syrian girl stepped off a boat in Boston Harbor on September 7th—a beacon of hope encountering a new land. Her name is Amal, and she was without parents, a stranger in a strange place, displaced from her home and everything she knew. But Little Amal was not alone; observing closely, she was surrounded

Curated news 07 May, 2022

Yu-Wen Wu Asked Google How to Walk From Boston to Taipei. She Spent the Next 10 Years Turning the Directions Into an Incredible Artwork

Yu-Wen Wu turned an absurdist set of Google Maps walking directions into a 20-foot artwork in the tradition of Chinese landscape scrolls. Source: Yu-Wen Wu Asked Google How to Walk From Boston to Taipei. She Spent the Next 10 Years Turning the Directions Into an Incredible Artwork

Sound walk SWS25
2025

Traces

What happens when we change the soundtrack of a place we think we know?

Sound walk SWS25
2025

Nature Walk

The Great Elm Remembers, Gibbons in The Garden, and Ribosome Retune form an interconnected sound walk through Boston Common and the Public Garden, weaving together memory, ecology, and molecular biology.

Sound walk SWS25
2025

Whisper in a Lily’s Ear

A data sonification piece based on five poems written by female poets who lived/worked in Boston over the course of its history.

Curated news 09 May, 2021

Walking Tour: The Cool, Old, and Beautiful Clocks of Downtown Crossing

Time yourself to see how long it takes. Source: Walking Tour: The Cool, Old, and Beautiful Clocks of Downtown Crossing

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The Secrets and Magic of Gus Solomons Jr. Interview by Anabella Lenzu

The following is an unpublished interview from Spring 2016, celebrating the life and creativity of Gus Solomons Jr., initially scheduled to be published by Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine. A review is a testimony. On Saturday, April 2nd, 2016, at the 14th Street Y Theater in NYC, I witnessed an event of love, recognition, and support […]

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Dérive app in Boston and NYC

After finally being allowed into the US of A, one of the classes I attended at Harvard was ‘Emotional Intelligence for Teams’, taught at MIT. The class is unique, in that half the students were juvenile inmates at a Maine correctional facility. An important objective of the course is to engender mindfulness, self-awareness, and establishing …

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mindful walking

A form of mindful movement. It uses the everyday activity of walking as a mindfulness practice to help you become more aware of the sensations in your body. By tuning into your environment and the sensations in your body as you walk, it can help you to focus on the present moment.

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