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All-American Ruins: Sunset Town
All-American Ruins guides listeners through immersive audio fantasies, recreating my experiences exploring abandoned spaces. Along the way, I ask questions about society and culture while encouraging folks to activate their imaginations for healing.
Harleigh Fungalford Castle: an audio guide to an imagined heritage ruin
This sound walk through an imaginary castle can be performed at any 'heritage' site. The guide challenges how visitors experience the prompts of historical interpretation by adding layers of imagined history that are mysterious and arbitrary. The style imitates conventional interpretive audio guides, before revealing a narrative that is non-didactic, destabilizing, weird and comical. I made space for class commentary and for including the more-than-human. This audio was mostly improvised while walking and slightly refined afterwards. It was then recorded at five different sites, including two Norman ruined castles, one in England and one in Wales and a Neolithic burial chamber. You may begin this walk anywhere. It is intended to take 25-45 minutes.
Machado’s River (The Rio de Janeiro of Machado de Assis)
In the heart of Rio de Janeiro, the life and work of Machado de Assis are revealed through 9 innovative audio experiences. City landmarks come to life to share their stories and connection with the author. A unique and immersive experience.
Walking in the Plantationocene: exploring the impact of colonial legacies on plant-human relations
This sound walk explores plant-human relations through encounters with planty beings on a route of your choice. It reveals the impact of colonial legacies on our relations with plants and proposes new forms of collaboration between plants and people.
Portland Dawn Quarry Walk
A dawn chorus walk from Ranters Lodge along coastal paths beside Chesil Beach, to and around Tout Quarry Sculpture Park and Nature Reserve on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. Sounds of the sea below the cliffs and bird life encountered in the quarry.
Along These Lines
‘Along The Lines’ is an immersive mobile soundwalk exploring Brighton’s laundry heritage. Designed and recorded by sound artist and researcher Anna Celeste Edmonds, in collaboration with charity Quiet Down. This project was funded by the Heritage Lottery, and is accessible on Echoes and the artist’s website.
The Chalk Path/Le Chemin de Craie
The Chalk Path/Le Chemin de Craie is a bilingual self-guided audio walk through Folkestone Warren and Cap Blanc Nez that invites you to walk down through deep time, to reflect on the past and reimagine the future, considering the enormity of time and it’s relationship to our own human existence and impact.
