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All-American Ruins: Sunset Town

Blake Pfeil

Blake Pfeil

Multidisciplinary artist: audio, film, writing, music (United States) 
Copyright: Blake Pfeil
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George's Music
6817 Visitors Cir, Orlando, FL 32819, USA
7 minutes
Free
English

Ghosts

2 sub-collections · 12 items
Sub-collection

poetry

6 sub-collections · 198 items

ruins

Collection · 7 items
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soundscape

Sub-collection · 134 items

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Tidelines: Poetry Soundwalk

Tidelines is an interactive poetry soundwalk that responds to Uist’s unique coastal landscape. Mapped to Berneray’s East Beach, this 35-minute walk features a selection of poems written and narrated by local writers, with music by Duncan MacLeod.

Duncan MacLeod
Sound walk

Orasaigh

Orasaigh is a geolocative acousmatic soundwalk composition that draws upon the landscape around the tidal island of Orasaigh, located on the coast of South Uist at Boisdale.

Duncan MacLeod
Walking piece

Last Listener at the Mid Atlantic Frost Fair

Last Listener at the Mid Atlantic Frost Fair is a soundscape of a poem by Michael S Roberts, an English poet and polymath. It chronicles a mythical, dreamlike and almost hyperstitional journey of the poet and protagonist through a frozen world.

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Wolverhampton Literature Festival

Wolverhampton Literature Festival was a vibrant annual event celebrating literature, poetry, music, and the arts. In 2020, the festival partnered with OVERHEAR to commission ten local poets to write about ten beloved independent city venues in Wolverhampton. These poems were recorded and virtually “pinned” to their respective locations, allowing festival-goers to discover and collect them

Tom Peel

Ghosts

2 sub-collections · 12 items
Sub-collection

poetry

6 sub-collections · 198 items

ruins

Collection · 7 items
Sub-collection

soundscape

Sub-collection · 134 items

Related

walkingevent

Tidelines: Poetry Soundwalk

Tidelines is an interactive poetry soundwalk that responds to Uist’s unique coastal landscape. Mapped to Berneray’s East Beach, this 35-minute walk features a selection of poems written and narrated by local writers, with music by Duncan MacLeod.

Duncan MacLeod
Sound walk

Orasaigh

Orasaigh is a geolocative acousmatic soundwalk composition that draws upon the landscape around the tidal island of Orasaigh, located on the coast of South Uist at Boisdale.

Duncan MacLeod
Walking piece

Last Listener at the Mid Atlantic Frost Fair

Last Listener at the Mid Atlantic Frost Fair is a soundscape of a poem by Michael S Roberts, an English poet and polymath. It chronicles a mythical, dreamlike and almost hyperstitional journey of the poet and protagonist through a frozen world.

Tony Onuchukwu
Sound walk

Wolverhampton Literature Festival

Wolverhampton Literature Festival was a vibrant annual event celebrating literature, poetry, music, and the arts. In 2020, the festival partnered with OVERHEAR to commission ten local poets to write about ten beloved independent city venues in Wolverhampton. These poems were recorded and virtually “pinned” to their respective locations, allowing festival-goers to discover and collect them

Tom Peel
Sound walk
All-American Ruins guides listeners through immersive audio fantasies, recreating my experiences exploring abandoned spaces. Along the way, I ask questions about society and culture while encouraging folks to activate their imaginations for healing.

Sometimes, it’s not possible to get inside an abandoned space, but the ghosts that may still linger among the ruins of George’s Music in Orlando, FL activate Blake’s imagination just the same. Join him for this special bonus episode as he daydreams the insides of the abandoned music store, surrounded on all sides by the echoes of America’s Disney-stained future.

All-American Ruins: Sunset Town

Copyright: Blake Pfeil

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Pfeil, B. (2024). All-American Ruins: Sunset Town. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/all-american-ruins-sunset-town/

pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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