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Despite the ongoing pandemic, we had more then 150 events and pieces submitted to Sound Walk September 2021.

Part of Sound Walk September 2021 was Sound Walk City · prelude, a festival of sound walks, performances and sound works, coinciding with Sound Walk September 2021, organised by Cona, and entered on the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana.

In numbers

Sound Walk September 2021 in numbers:

Achievements from throughout the year:

  • At the end of 2021, our library of walking pieces contained over 500 works.
  • We’ve started a weekly curated mailing list on MailChimp, migrated it to Sendy, and, at the end of 2021, had just short of 600 subscribers, with opening rates of around 50%.
  • We’re now offering paid supporting memberships, which is supporting our work with badly needed funds.
  • We grew registered memberships to over 2500 individuals.

Help was had

We’re very happy with the help from Benedetta Piccio and Margo Nsana. Benedetta had a focus on customer relations. Margo helped out with social media management, and design.

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From SWS21: Winner’s Circle

At the start of Sound Walk September 2022, we talk with last year’s winners, discuss their work, and what they’ve been up to in the last year.

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Escaping Accelerated Reality

By addressing the propaganda of progress, consumption and self-referentiality, Slovenian dramaturge, publicist and producer Jasmina Založnik engages in a conversation about the performativity of walking in the context of art.

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Safe and smart cities in an age of digital colonialism

Mike Kwet's presentation discusses the core tenets of digital colonialism, with a focus on how it is manifesting itself in physical spaces.

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The visual language of protest and resistance

Join Cecilia on a journey around Buenos Aires’ unique visual language of protest and resistance, as the capital city’s streets have become a vital channel for public expression.

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Rivers in the City

Anja Podreka presents problematics of the rivers and the usage of waters. The leading question of the talk is focused to the title; ‘To create a space for the river’.

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Situationist practice in the digital city

John Wild discusses whether the Situationist International’s psychogeographic walking practices can be modified to research the specificity of the digital city.

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Turning IP law against its intended purpose

Natalia Mount and Chris Byrnes lead a conversation about their collaborative project Performing Pro Arts COMMONS and what it means to occupy intellectual property through a sound walk or an open source application, such as the Dérive app.

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Walking, Drawing and Embodied Cartography: Petörke Lake, Hungary

In this café Fay talks about a walk, performed in Hungary, and of her thinking and practice around it. She opens up the discussion on walking within the themes of kinetic drawing, embodied cartography, fractals, and on walking in circles.

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Walking as a Question, crossing walking, writing and listening

Authors of audio papers are invited, along with creators of sound walks for Walking as a Question, to share their thoughts and experiences about their works and this innovative practice of walking, writing and listening.

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Conversations about Decoding Nature

Zorica invites listeners to close their eyes to connect with the sounds on a deeper level. While engaging with Signal / Return, the artist asks individuals to discern the possibility of interspecies symbiosis within a shared landscape.

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Sound walking in the Anthropocene

Sound artist Anne Cecilie Lie invites to a discussion around sound walking in the Anthropocene and raises questions about global technology and ecology, how it affects art practices by working with locative technologies and smartphones.

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Open Call Advisory Event for submissions to Sound Walk September 2021

Considering making a submission to Sound Walk September 2021 but unsure what is eligible or how to complete the submission process? We have created an Open Call page and FAQs, but are also offering this free advisory event to help you over any perceived hurdles.

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From SWS21: Winner’s Circle

2022-09-06 18:00
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We talk with last year's winners, discuss their work, and what they've been up to in the last year.

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Announcing the winners of the Sound Walk September Awards 2021

Not only have we made it into 2022, we are also very pleased to announce the winners and honourable mentions of the Sound Walk September Awards 2021.

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Documenting the history, hopes, and community ties that wove together Black Portland

Darrell Grant's Come Sunday is a walk through Portland's inner-northeast neighborhoods, which were once home to over 200 Black churches. It was commissioned by Third Angle New Music, which has a focus on creating a "soundtrack for our time".

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The sonic barricades of Minsk

Pavel Niakhayeu created Political Soundwalks as an audio-essay to document what Minsk sounded like during the political protests of 2020-2021. His field recordings provide a starting point for a discussion on the multifaceted role of sound in claiming the urban and political space.

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Off the wall

Green Croft Arts created a soundwalk set along Hadrian's Wall. Director Amanda Drago discusses the piece's background.

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Uncovering the history of a high street

Jez Riley French’s sound walk Breet Velvit Ake (‘Bright Velvet Wander’ in the Yorkshire dialect) evokes Whitefriargate’s history using a range of hidden, overlooked or usually inaudible sounds from the street.

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But what do our more-than-human cohabitants have to say for themselves?

Lore of the Wild invites you to hear stories, songs and sounds from non-human inhabitants of Lesnes, an area of ancient woodland in southeast London.

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Where are we when we walk?

Where are we when we walk? Are we here, in this place that our feet move through, or are we somewhere else, lost in thoughts and memories of other times and places?

oversupinate

People who jog, run, and sprint have their share of problems that slow-moving people can barely comprehend. One is oversupination. As the OED defines it, to oversupinate is “To run or walk so that the weight falls upon the outer sides of the feet to a greater extent than is necessary, desirable, etc.” A 1990 Runner’s World article gets to the crux of the problem: “It’s hard to ascertain exactly what percentage of the running population oversupinates, but it’s a fraction of the people who think they do.” Credits to Mark Peters.

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