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Sound walk SWS26 2026

Block 1307: An Uncommon History

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1307: An Uncommon History
Seagram Building, New York, NY, USA
20 minutes
Free

social history

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Sound Walk September

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Walking arts

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New York

City · 12 sub-regions · 189 items

social history

Collection · 7 items
Sub-collection

Sound Walk September

Sub-collection · 55 items
Sub-collection

Walking arts

Sub-collection · 36 items

Regions

New York

City · 12 sub-regions · 189 items
In 1307, walking becomes composition. A single Midtown Manhattan block unfolds through shifting audio, where hidden histories surface, overlap, and dissolve according to how you choose to move.

Curated as a contemplative, listener-shaped listening experience, this self-guided, on-demand soundwalk invites participants to explore one Midtown block as a layered historical and cultural field. Centered on the Seagram block (Park to Lexington, 52nd to 53rd), it uses geolocated audio zones where music, field recordings, and archival traces overlap, fade, and recombine as listeners move, pause, or retrace their steps. There is no prescribed route and no single “correct” reading: each body composes its own path through precolonial ecologies, rail and industrial histories, residential and cultural transformations, and corporate modernity.

APA style reference

Bethancourt, M. (2026). Block 1307: An Uncommon History. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/block-1307-an-uncommon-history/

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