SWS19
Musicity x Sculpture in the City
Musicity x Sculpture in the City has commissioned 11 tracks from various artists that explore the sonic landscape of key locations across the City of London, including Aldgate, Shoreditch, and Leadenhall Market. This project combines architecture, music, acoustic engineering, and virtual reality to create alternative auditory experiences of the urban environment.
Musicity x Low Line
Musicity x Low Line has commissioned 15 artists to create soundtracks that highlight locations along the Victorian railway viaduct connecting Bankside, London Bridge, and Bermondsey. Free leaflets with maps are available from Better Bankside, Team London Bridge, and Blue Bermondsey offices to explore this new walking route showcasing the area's architectural and acoustic heritage.
Musicity x Culture Mile
Musicity x Culture Mile has commissioned 10 soundtracks and 3 VR video-art pieces inspired by the sonic landscapes of 10 locations across Culture Mile, created through collaboration with architects, acoustic engineers, musicians, and VR artists. The project integrates architecture, music, and virtual reality to explore and reinterpret urban acoustic environments, with contributions from Flanagan Lawrence Architects, Arup, and the Barbican.
Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019: Place Listening
Place Listening investigates how playful urban listening can reshape connections between people and their environments through workshops and an audio walk in Oslo’s ROM area. The project documents these sessions in a gallery installation featuring site-specific sound recordings that invite participants to explore contemporary urban experiences.
Stepping Out
Stepping Out by Red Herring Productions is a coastal walking performance featuring field recordings from the North Devon coastline. The project, in partnership with the North Devon Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, may offer downloadable sound files and encourage local visits to recording locations.
108
ONE OH EIGHT is a pair of geolocated binaural audio dramas designed to be listened to in situ on the 108 bus routes in Cape Town and London, accessible via the Echoes.xyz platform or mobile app. The London route covers diverse neighborhoods from Blackheath to Stratford International Station, while the Cape Town route traverses areas including Hangberg, Hout Bay, and Sea Point, highlighting contrasting social histories and environments.
Singing with Bridges Soundwalk
Singing with Bridges is a self-directed sound project in Bromley-by-Bow, London, where participants engage with the urban soundscape by listening and responding to trains passing under a bridge. The project encourages silent observation and vocal interaction to explore the interplay between human presence and the city's dynamic rhythms.
Inside Mphil – St. Nikolai
The free app "INSIDE MPHIL – St. Nikolai" allows users to virtually experience the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra on the meadow behind St. Nikolai church in Munich through GPS-connected smartphones and headphones. Developed by sound designer Mathis Nitschke and violist Gunter Pretzel, the app features a spatial audio recording of the fourth movement of Robert Schumann's Spring Symphony performed in March 2019 under conductor Pablo Heras-Casado.
Passing – Going – Coming
This hybrid sound walk connects the Museum of Modern Art of Sao Paulo and Praça 14Bis through three interconnected maps in the CGeomap app, enabling users to explore spatial and temporal layers of past, present, and future. Conceived by Geert Vermeire and Fred Adam in collaboration with NuSom young artists, it integrates sound recordings, texts, and locative stories to create a multisensory temporal and spatial artistic mapping.
Ecumenopolis – the whole world is one city
“Ecumenopolis – the whole world is one city”, a series of collaborative and global sound walks created for Sound Walk Sunday 2019. The sound walks are made for individual walkers around the British Library London, the State Library of Moscow, the National Library of Greece and the City Library of Sao Paulo, during September 2019.
Balade avec Rimbô
This French-language, site-specific sound walk novel set in La Romieu combines soundscapes, musical compositions, and digital illustrations triggered by proximity to relevant locations in the village. Created using the Ojoo platform, it features texts by Christian Porre, soundscapes and drawings by Stefaan, and media walk design by Geert Vermeire, and was presented during Sound Walk Sunday 2017 with plans for an extended version in 2019.
Continuing the journey of the Tortoise and the spider
In 2017, Ros Bandt and Geert Vermeire created "The Tortoise and the Spider," a collaborative sound walk performance involving dancers connected by strings and portable speakers, forming a giant illuminated human harp played during a night walk starting at Parnassos Mountain in Delphi, Greece. The project's instruments traveled globally for performances integrating locative media, with the collaboration continuing through 2019 in locations including Athens, Vienna, and Melbourne.
