award
Announcing the winners of the Sound Walk September Awards 2021
17 Jan, 2022
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.
Open call for partners: Climate Sound Walk Award
24 Jun, 2021
We are looking for partners to establish a Climate Sound Walk Award; an extension of the existing Sound Walk September Awards.
Sound Walk September 2020 Awards winners and honourable mentions
14 Jan, 2021
We're very pleased to announce the winners and honourable mentions of the Sound Walk September 2020 Awards.
On memories, loss, and change
10 Dec, 2020
Stefaan van Biesen revisits a walk he shared decades ago, reflecting on change, as well as the lack of change.
Reflecting on the texture of air
7 Dec, 2020
Laura Mitchison captured the history of two hospitals closing down through the soundscapes they carried throughout their histories.
How to get to Third Ward
3 Dec, 2020
Karen O'Rourke created a sound walk with a focus on Third Ward in Houston, renowned for its mix of cutting-edge art and community action.
Clarity during lockdown
30 Nov, 2020
Emma Welton creates hand-drawn illustrated maps as a kind of graphic scores, capturing the sounds of her environment, creating short walks where participants experience new and familiar sounds in different ways.
Home makers, in-between worlds
26 Nov, 2020
Migrant domestic workers in Lebanon and the UK talk about their experience in Ella Parry-Davies' piece 'Home Makers', to be listened to in select locations in London and Lebanon, creating a mix of intimacy, while showing the limits of identification and solidarity.
Sound walks as contemporary art practice
24 Nov, 2020
Irena Pivka and Brane Zorman discuss their sound walk Sandbox, a meditative experience, a training in mindfulness and encouragement to critically think about our individual experience and environment.
When only the ears may travel
19 Nov, 2020
Carina Pesch talks about her album "The Ears May Travel", created as a reflection on the challenge of travel during COVID.
Shadow-walks (at home)
16 Nov, 2020
Viv Corringham walks with people and then 'sings' their route. Under lockdown, she did this remotely.
The 42 walks of Contención Island
12 Nov, 2020
Martin P Eccles reflects on his 42 walks during British lockdown, creating an island of experience with his house at the center.
Los esperamos!
9 Nov, 2020
Elspeth Penfold discusses the background to her shortlisted A different LENS, around the ideas of psychogeography, disruption, and the Long Table.
Opening up Greenwich Village
5 Nov, 2020
A brief introduction to the history of Greenwich Village, as featured in the sound walk 'The Last Eccentrics of Greenwich Village'.
Remembering the dead
2 Nov, 2020
Richard White talks about his work 'Walking the Names, highlighting the deaths of thousands who died in poverty in the Bath Union Workhouse, between 1858 and 1899.
Seeing, from hearing
23 Oct, 2020
Carlos Queiroz discusses the background to his work "Seeing from hearing while walking", one of the shortlisted pieces of the SWS20 Awards.
