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After early worries due to the COVID pandemic, we were very excited to announce a varied programme of events taking place around the world during Sound Walk September 2020.

Participants were able to listen to stories, get closer to nature, travel to far away places, immerse themselves in different cultures, add their own voice, record the ambience, learn how to make sound walks, and submit their own work, as well as participate in lively debates, and intimate café conversations.

We facilitated online collaboration through 30 Days of Walking and Shorelines.

Sound Walk September 2020 in numbers:

Achievements from throughout the year:

Help was had

We were happy and lucky to be able to rely on the volunteer work provided by Liam Forrest and James Luce. Thanks!

A massive thanks to the SWS Advisory Board, who were key in identifying the winners and honourable mentions for the SWS20 Awards.

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Slow Radio

Immersive sound walks have been around for a few decades, enjoyed by individual listeners or in small groups of listeners. Award-winning author and radio producer, Horatio Clare teaming up with the BBC, has hugely increased the audience for sound walks.

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A leap into the sonic future

These days it is possible to locate any form of media pretty much anywhere on the planet which has a GPS signal. The whole world is up for grabs as a readymade stage set. Changing the soundtrack to the ‘movie of our lives’ changes everything.

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Weaving place, deep listening and the Sacred

In this panel, we will explore the relationship of place, connection, walking the land and deep listening, from a range of perspectives, knowledges and disciplines, including: First Nations, Law/Governance, Art, Philosophy, Māori cosmologies and Western Science.

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Sound as an art form

Amanda Gutierrez and Ximena Alarcon will each present their artistic practice, followed by a conversation chaired by Viv Corringham. Three women artists working with sound as an art form.

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Travelling and stumbling

When one travels on foot, there is a deliberate slowness, a marking of time, allowing contemplation and consideration of occupied space, one step at a time.

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Plant(e)scape: walking as a botanical manifest

Simona Vermeire is researching and exploring the common grounds between the botanical world and walking, relating to vegetal or plant thinking to promenadology.

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The role of movement in the participation in and appreciation of art

Movement is essential to life and art. Helen Ottaway is interested in how we perceive movement, how we use it and how it changes us.

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Seeking Tranquility

A calm sought by many living in towns and cities was created by a global crisis. As lockdown eases, and life returns to ‘normal’ how can we seek the tranquility that we all shared?

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Taking a Virtual Walk on the Wild Side

The covid-19 pandemic has led to a surge of interest in how we can experience and enjoy virtual nature and the great outdoors, by using digital technology, when staying in the safety of our homes. Join us for a panel discussion about virtual walks, chaired by Sue Thomas.

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Walking slowly while recording the unseen

Get behind the microphone to discover how one makes compelling audio recordings that engage both armchair listeners and those of us out and about on foot.

Sound Walk September 2020 Awards winners and honourable mentions

Featured SWS20
2021-01-14 03:56:00

We’re very pleased to announce the winners and honourable mentions of the Sound Walk September 2020 Awards.

Josh Kopeček Julie Poitras Santos Hamish Sewell Maja Thomas +3

Sound Walk September 2020 Awards shortlist

Featured SWS20
2020-10-15 17:17:33

After a very successful Sound Walk September 2020, we’re very excited to announce this year’s shortlist for the winners of the Sound Walk September 2020 Awards.

Babak Fakhamzadeh
Sound walk
SWS20 2020

LOTTERY

LOTTERY is a geolocated sound walk through a new suburban development on the southside of Meanjin/Brisbane, exhibited as part of res[on]ance [off] curated by Gabrielle White, Brisbane 2020 The work involves walking through a few streets of Rochedale whilst listening to different people talking about what they would do if they won a lottery for

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Greg Hooper
Sound walk
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Walking It

A series of occasional walking dialogues and reflections which explore, on foot and in situ, the significance of place and walking on people’s ways of knowing and being in the world. Each conversation takes its own path: some are focused on a specific topic or theme that is walked and talked through; others focus on

Jerry O'Neill
Sound walk
SWS20 2020

Stirchley Soundwalk

Sound Artist Nikki Sheth has created a soundwalk of Stirchley for the Ten Acres of Sound Festival. The walk encourages a deeper connection with the natural environment and a new awareness of the hidden sounds around us – both natural and man-made. Exploring the area of Stirchley, Nikki has created a sound map of interesting

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Nikki Sheth
Sound walk
SWS20 2020

The Ears May Travel

The Ears May Travel came into existence spontaneously during the covid-19 pandemic in spring 2020. During lockdown I simply felt the urge to travel – at least in imagination. But it is not only a vacation for the senses. It is a commentary in a time when countries around the globe are closing their borders.

La Pesch
Happened
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Workshop Zintuiglijk Wandelen : Walking with chairs, Stille luisterwandeling, Wind en water wandeling

2 - 16 Sep, 2020
IJsselstein, Nederland

Workshop Zintuiglijk Wandelen door Ienke Kastelein in het kader van Wandelen als kunst. Je kunt verschillende vormen van wandelen beoefenen: in relatie tot je lichaam, de omgeving en de herinnering. Via je voeten maakt je brein contact met de grond; via het ruiken, luisteren, kijken en voelen worden herinneringen geactiveerd. Zo verbinden we onze mentale

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Ienke Kastelein
Sound walk
SWS20 2020

A Meeting Place | 会议地点

This soundwalk aims to sonically animate the content of the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art’s archive, bringing to life the hidden histories and images within and inviting new audiences and communities to engage with these stories. The work is based on oral histories from the archive, in which interviewees talk of their migrant experience, their

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Hayley Suviste
Sound walk
SWS20 2020

SandBox

Meditative experience, wakefulness training and encouragement to critically thinking about our experience and (re)evaluation of the surrounding environment. A walk along the railway tracks, with the help of an app and headphones, leads a viewer, a wanderer and an eavesdropper into a performative space. The work was created during the time of the epidemic when

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Irena Pivka Brane Zorman
Happened
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Seeking tranquillity

2020-09-24 18:00
Online

Ximena Alarcon in discussion with landscape architect, Usue Riaz Aruna, musician and digital media artist, Ron Herrema and Richard Bentley of consultancy Small Silence.

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Ximena Alarcón Ron Herrema Usue Ruiz Arana Richard Bentley

sog

To walk slowly and in a leisurely fashion, as in “The old man was just soggin’ along.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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