A Sound Walk is a blindfolded listening walk in which you explore the surroundings with your ears. Experience the sound composition of the city with amplified senses! Be amazed at how you pick up specific sounds to which we usually pay little attention because they get lost in the general soundscape.
This sound piece explores the hidden history of Fairlight Country Park and its ruined Lookout Tower through a narrated walk accompanied by a location-based soundscape. The historical research was conducted by park volunteers Sally Vennard, Cath Cooper, and Kelly Morgan, with narration by Sally and Cath.
GPS, geo-poetic system
Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).
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