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The art of walking – The Strand
In his famous essay, “Walking,” American poet, philosopher, and environmentalist Henry David Thoreau presents the simple act of walking as an art to be mastered. The type of walking Thoreau describes doesn’t serve the practical purpose of getting somewhere; rather, it enables one to engage in contemplation by taking refuge in the sacred space that
Walking Bodies / Walking Art – Walking Practices : the book of Prespa 2019
The book with all actions and papers of the Walking Arts Encounters/Conference (WAC) 2019 is now available in a printed and a digital format. The publication is in full color, with hundreds of photographs, hundreds of written contributions from all over the world, and 567 pages.
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The art of walking – The Strand
In his famous essay, “Walking,” American poet, philosopher, and environmentalist Henry David Thoreau presents the simple act of walking as an art to be mastered. The type of walking Thoreau describes doesn’t serve the practical purpose of getting somewhere; rather, it enables one to engage in contemplation by taking refuge in the sacred space that
Walking Bodies / Walking Art – Walking Practices : the book of Prespa 2019
The book with all actions and papers of the Walking Arts Encounters/Conference (WAC) 2019 is now available in a printed and a digital format. The publication is in full color, with hundreds of photographs, hundreds of written contributions from all over the world, and 567 pages.
• A double cd and digital release / a text score and prepared text / a book.
“Readwalking”, two words brought together to describe a simultaneous act of reading and walking, of reading as walking, of walking as reading, of sounding a text about walking, step by step, one word calling the other, following one’s senses, like Thoreau.
CD
The double CD (Edition Wandelweiser, June 2021) brings together four contrasting interpretations of an open score and the act of readwalking at its core, each track taking an entirely different direction out there. The individual and collective renditions are based on a radical pruning of David Henri Thoreau’s transcendental essay about walking (1851). Footnotes provide suggestions on how to speak, sing, sound the remaining words, alone or with others, inside or outside, sitting, standing or walking.
readwalking in le puid (43:28) – schuppe (voice), thut (viol)
readwalking in thornton heath (06:50) – waeckerlé (voice)
readwalking in haan (31:32) – beuger (harmonica, children glockenspiel, voice), schimag (lyre, voice)
readwalking remotely (30:10) – reber (field recording, electronics), waeckerlé (voice)
Followed by a few more ‘directions out there’: readwalking performances at Klangraum 2021 in Düsseldorf in Aug 2021 as well as recordings and mixes of readwalking undertaken outside that I am adding as I receive them.
Book
A direction out there – readwalking (with) Thoreau, a pocket size book bringing together the prepared text, the score and two essays: Michael Hampton on the literary flaneur, Vicky Smith on Ecriture Feminine and media permeability, is available from MA BIBLIOTHEQUE.
‘Wherever a (wo)man separates from the multitude, and goes her own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road’. Life without principle, (Henry David Thoreau, 1863).
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