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SWS24 2024

A City Full of Stories

St Martin in the Fields
Hosted by: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Royal Academy of Music's Open Academy department, The Connection at St Martin's
St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, UK
24 minutes
Free

music

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poetry

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Writing

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place

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This city is full of stories, many unseen and unheard. The windows and the bricks of buildings older than any of us: What have they seen? What have they seen? Who are the strangers that find themselves sitting next to each other on a bench? Where have they been and where are they going? Who are the creatures that we share the city with? What might the fox or the pigeon tell us if we took the time to listen? This SoundWalk brings to life the imagined stories of the buildings and pathways that surround us. A City Full of Stories asks us to slow down, look around and listen…

A City Full of Stories is a 25-minute immersive audio experience. Starting at St-Martin-in-the-Fields Church, London, listeners are invited to pick up a leaflet/map, scan the QR code and download Echoes.xyz to begin. The SoundWalk is best experienced using a smartphone and headphones. For those unable to do the full walk, tracks are available on SoundCloud.

Marking 25 years of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields’s work with people experiencing homelessness, A City Full of Stories has been specially created for Marriner 100 alongside participants at The Connection at St Martin’s and The Outside Project.

Walking (Track 8)

Credits

Music and words by participants at The Connection at St Martin’s and The Outside Project
Artistic direction and workshop facilitation by composer Jackie Walduck and writer Hazel Gould
Music performed by participants at The Connection, members of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and students and Fellows from Royal Academy of Music’s Open Academy department
Spoken word performed by David Ogundare
Recorded by Matt Catlow
Illustrations by Ruby Wright

A full list of contributors' names is available at asmf.org/soundwalk

APA style reference

(2024). A City Full of Stories. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/a-city-full-of-stories/
Submitted by: callumgiven

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snaffle, snoodle

These fanciful-sounding words have no definitive origin: They probably just sounded right to someone who was sauntering, which is what they both mean. An Oxford English Dictionary (OED) example from 1821 describes someone “soodling up and down the street.” Credits to Mark Peters.

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