SWS22 2022

Chorlton Oral History Soundwalk

Hayley Suviste

CC-BY-NC: Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives

Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Chorlton Green, St Clement’s Church and Lych Gate

Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Chorlton Green, St Clement’s Church and Lych Gate

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Chorlton Green, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, UK

Free

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Field recording

Sub-collection · 38 items

Sub-collection

oral history

Sub-collection · 16 items

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sound

Sub-collection · 221 items

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A song by KPOP band, Super Junior, about walking towards one's dreams.

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Sound walk

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.

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. Older adults (born in the late 19th and early 20th centuries) were interviewed about their time growing up, living, and working in Chorlton between 1900 and 1950. These oral histories have been brought to life with field recording and sound design. Listen in person, or on the Sonic Maps web player.

Credits

Hosted by: North West Sound Heritage

APA style reference

Suviste, H. (2022). Chorlton Oral History Soundwalk. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/chorlton-oral-history-soundwalk/

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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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