The SoundCloud profile "Walking It" features a curated collection of ambient and field recordings designed to enhance the experience of walking in urban and natural environments. The audio tracks emphasize the relationship between soundscapes and spatial awareness, capturing diverse acoustic atmospheres that range from quiet city streets to natural wilderness. This collection offers listeners an immersive auditory exploration of place, encouraging an attentive engagement with the sonic textures that define different walking routes.
In addition to standalone soundscapes, "Walking It" includes experimental compositions that blend environmental sounds with minimal electronic elements, reflecting contemporary approaches in walking art practice. The recordings invite reflection on the interplay between movement, environment, and sound perception, aligning with cultural geography themes that consider how auditory experiences shape our understanding of place and mobility. Through this focus on walking as a method of experiencing and interpreting landscape, the profile contributes to the discourse on walking as an artistic and spatial practice.
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Lilian – I’d rather be invisible than a threat – Identity cards and challenges … with Lilian around Maynooth
A third extract from a walk around Maynooth University with Lilian who reflects on how her identity card serves to make her oddly invisible as one of the few Black members of academic staff.
Six Adult Educators Reflect On Walking
Jerry, walking through the Devil's Glen in Wicklow, introduces an edited collection from the walks he has been on with five adult educator colleagues over the year 2019-20. Sinead, Fergal, Bríd, Conor and Camilla all reflect, as they walk, on the si...
A reclamation of walking – with Camilla around the Navan Road
In the stubborn rain of a pandemic summer in 2020, Camilla brings me, and her two dogs Hugo and Ferris, on one of her regular walks around her home in north Dublin. In this extract, from the early part of our walk, Camilla reflects honestly on her di...
We walked the land together – with Conor coming down Carrowkeel
Walking with Conor down from the Carrowkeel megalithic tombs in Sligo, he reflects on his memories of walking and learning about the land with his grandmother. He recalls, as he walks, her own stories of walking as an act of imperial servitude and la...
Walking and hardship – with Bríd in Maynooth
Towards the end of our walk around Maynooth University campus where Brid has learned and worked as an adult educator since the 1970s, she reflects on how, in her childhood in Dublin, walking would have been seen very differently than it is now.
Psychogeographic lines, slow walking and walking as protest – with Fergal in Dublin’s docklands
In July 2019 Fergal and myself went on a cross-town walk in Dublin as part of a collaborative writing process for a book on further education. Towards the end, and as we found ourselves meandering to a conclusion around the financial quarter of Dubli...
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