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SWS20 2020

A Meeting Place | 会议地点

Manchester’s Chinatown
Chinatown, Manchester, UK
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Chinatown

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field recordings

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oral history

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Memoriam Walking Festival

From the 8th to the 18th of July 2022, visual works, narratives, soundscapes, musical compositions will be presented on the topic of the oral history of the island of Lefkada, Greece and the meaning of the place in general.

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Chinatown

Collection · 2 items

field recordings

Collection · 43 items
Sub-collection

oral history

Sub-collection · 16 items

Related

Sound walk

L E T M E T A K E Y O U T H E R E

This 18-minute stereo sound walk, set in a snowy field north of Hebden Bridge, UK, combines field recordings, ambient drones, and 1980s pop loops with a spoken monologue linking cultural figures like Leon Trotsky and Ian Curtis. The piece centers on photographer Charlie Meecham capturing the snowy scene used for Joy Division’s single "Atmosphere" cover, incorporating contributions from Paul Rooney and others.

Alain Chamois
Sound walk

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.

Fiona Fraser-Smith
Sound walk

Chorlton Oral History Soundwalk

Commissioned by North West Sound Heritage, sound artist Hayley Suviste created a geo-locative sound walk on Sonic Maps, using interviews from The Manchester Studies unit's extensive oral history project from the 1970s.

Hayley Suviste
walkingevent

Memoriam Walking Festival

From the 8th to the 18th of July 2022, visual works, narratives, soundscapes, musical compositions will be presented on the topic of the oral history of the island of Lefkada, Greece and the meaning of the place in general.

andromachi
Sound walk
This soundwalk uses oral histories and 360-degree binaural audio to explore the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art’s archive, highlighting migrant experiences and cultural memories in Manchester’s Chinatown. By triggering geolocated sounds and interview clips via GPS, listeners can immerse themselves in the area’s hidden histories through their smartphones and headphones.

This soundwalk aims to sonically animate the content of the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art’s archive, bringing to life the hidden histories and images within and inviting new audiences and communities to engage with these stories. The work is based on oral histories from the archive, in which interviewees talk of their migrant experience, their identities as people of Chinese heritage living in the UK, memories of Manchester’s Chinatown and Chinese festivals, and our first venue on Charlotte Street.

Listeners can uncover these stories, alongside field recordings and composed music, whilst exploring the streets of Chinatown with geolocated sounds and interview clips triggered by their GPS data. The audio for this work has been mixed in 360-degree binaural audio, creating the sensation that different sounds are being emitted from all directions around the listeners head and providing a fully immersive experience.

The soundwalk is available through the ECHOES (https://echoes.xyz/). Each listener will need a smartphone and headphones to access.

Credits

Hosted by: Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art

APA style reference

Suviste, H. (2020). A Meeting Place | 会议地点. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/a-meeting-place-%e4%bc%9a%e8%ae%ae%e5%9c%b0%e7%82%b9/

driftsinging

Drawing with (vocal) sound in response to place while passing through place. Driftsinging borrows from the Situationist Drift, and Baudelaire’s flâneur. Driftsinging also relates to the process of ‘sounding,’ the sonic measuring of distance and depth that locates position in place and ‘echo location’, the examination of place through sonic reflection and refraction, resonance and echo.

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