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SWS19 2017

Continuing the journey of the Tortoise and the spider

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Species-in-between

This project presents a simultaneous sound walk in the National Garden of Athens paired with an online map exploring embodied cognition through art and action, featuring texts by Will Kymlicka, Sue Donaldson, and others inspired by *Zoopolis*. Developed by the Research Group on Art and Embodied Cognition and accessible via CGeomap, the walk was part of the Analogio Festiva at the 48th Book Festival of Athens 2019.

Geert Vermeire
Walking piece

Resounding Cities (Athens, Lisbon, Brussels)

Resounding Cities was a collaborative project examining urban rituals through workshops in Athens, Brussels, and Lisbon, resulting in sound maps and sound walks. The project involved international contributions and culminated in an interactive audiovisual map and a collective sound walk presented at the 2015 Athens Science Festival.

Geert Vermeire
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Urban Emptiness: sound walks in Limassol

Urban Emptiness was an interdisciplinary sound walk project in Limassol, Cyprus, exploring urban soundscapes, silence, and emptiness through workshops using locative media tools to create site-specific geolocated narratives. The project involved artists, researchers, and students from multiple international institutions and resulted in a series of mobile device sound walks presented publicly in Limassol.

Geert Vermeire
Walking piece

Listening to the other

"Listening to each other / Einander zuhören – Stadt – (Ge)Schichten was a collaborative sound project conducted simultaneously in Athens, Dresden, and Essen, involving researchers, sound artists, and collectives to explore the relationship between residents and their sonic environment. Using the open-source locative media platform noTours, the project created acoustic cartographies through soundwalks and sound maps, resulting in over 600 recordings and ten soundwalk areas in Athens that offer interactive, non-linear auditory experiences challenging conventional visual urban models."

Geert Vermeire

athens

Collection · 10 items

live

Collection · 10 items

outdoors

Collection · 14 items

Related

Walking piece

Species-in-between

This project presents a simultaneous sound walk in the National Garden of Athens paired with an online map exploring embodied cognition through art and action, featuring texts by Will Kymlicka, Sue Donaldson, and others inspired by *Zoopolis*. Developed by the Research Group on Art and Embodied Cognition and accessible via CGeomap, the walk was part of the Analogio Festiva at the 48th Book Festival of Athens 2019.

Geert Vermeire
Walking piece

Resounding Cities (Athens, Lisbon, Brussels)

Resounding Cities was a collaborative project examining urban rituals through workshops in Athens, Brussels, and Lisbon, resulting in sound maps and sound walks. The project involved international contributions and culminated in an interactive audiovisual map and a collective sound walk presented at the 2015 Athens Science Festival.

Geert Vermeire
Walking piece

Urban Emptiness: sound walks in Limassol

Urban Emptiness was an interdisciplinary sound walk project in Limassol, Cyprus, exploring urban soundscapes, silence, and emptiness through workshops using locative media tools to create site-specific geolocated narratives. The project involved artists, researchers, and students from multiple international institutions and resulted in a series of mobile device sound walks presented publicly in Limassol.

Geert Vermeire
Walking piece

Listening to the other

"Listening to each other / Einander zuhören – Stadt – (Ge)Schichten was a collaborative sound project conducted simultaneously in Athens, Dresden, and Essen, involving researchers, sound artists, and collectives to explore the relationship between residents and their sonic environment. Using the open-source locative media platform noTours, the project created acoustic cartographies through soundwalks and sound maps, resulting in over 600 recordings and ten soundwalk areas in Athens that offer interactive, non-linear auditory experiences challenging conventional visual urban models."

Geert Vermeire
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In 2017, Ros Bandt and Geert Vermeire created "The Tortoise and the Spider," a collaborative sound walk performance involving dancers connected by strings and portable speakers, forming a giant illuminated human harp played during a night walk starting at Parnassos Mountain in Delphi, Greece. The project's instruments traveled globally for performances integrating locative media, with the collaboration continuing through 2019 in locations including Athens, Vienna, and Melbourne.

During World Listening Day 2017 and Made of Walking (II) Ros Bandt created a collaborative work, in collaboration with Geert Vermeire, a sound walk performance “The tortoise and the spider”, a web of walkers.
Focusing on outdoors movement practices and new technology / live electronics the performance invited to new ways of co-operation in sound and movement. The sound artists engaged for this performance with a group of dancers in a collaboration of making a giant illuminated people spider aeolian harp played and moved around, walking at night, connected with strings. The process involved the creation of a “human harp”, a group in movement connected with each other, with portable speakers, locative media, and a tortoise lyra, playing the strings that connect them in their trajectory, resonating with the ground in a global pilgrimage starting at the Parnassos Mountain in Delphi Greece.
Afterwards the lyra and the head of the spider, as itinerants instruments, travelled the world separately with Geert Vermeire and Ros Bandt, engaging in locative media performances and walks with local artists in Athens, Nicosia, Lisbon, New York, Sao Paulo and in Melbourne. This summer the head and body meet again at Lake Prespes in Greece for Made of Walking (V) and travel for Sound Walk Sunday 2019 to Vienna, to become a tortoise spider and tortoctopus sound walk, returning eventually back to Melbourne for a final performance during September.
Vienna, 6-8 September

APA style reference

Bandt, R. (2017). Continuing the journey of the Tortoise and the spider. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/continuing-the-journey-of-the-tortoise-and-the-spider/

earl-footed, hurdle-footed, club-footed

As in “He’s got feet like an earl-footed turnip” (said of someone who walks with his feet turned out). from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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