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Entangled Formation

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Multiple locations

Bird

Collection · 3 items

field recordings

Collection · 43 items
Sub-collection

GPS

Sub-collection · 26 items

Prague

Collection · 5 items

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Instamatic #6 Prague

In 2010 Jez Riley French visited Prague again for a few days….the few days turned into a week due to volcanic ash closing the airspace over Europe….he walked around Prague sometimes recording, sometimes not….just walking & listening & looking – for his own pleasure….on the eventual long coach journey back to the UK he listened

Jez Riley French
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GPS Embroidery

GPS Embroidery is a walking performance practice which appropriates a tool invented in the service of imperialism and puts it into the hands of artists who mother. It is an ongoing political response to the reactionary politics of our times, which aims to broaden ideas about who-gets-to-write-what-where in and about the British landscape.

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

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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

Bird

Collection · 3 items

field recordings

Collection · 43 items
Sub-collection

GPS

Sub-collection · 26 items

Prague

Collection · 5 items

Related

Sound walk

Instamatic #6 Prague

In 2010 Jez Riley French visited Prague again for a few days….the few days turned into a week due to volcanic ash closing the airspace over Europe….he walked around Prague sometimes recording, sometimes not….just walking & listening & looking – for his own pleasure….on the eventual long coach journey back to the UK he listened

Jez Riley French
Walking piece

GPS Embroidery

GPS Embroidery is a walking performance practice which appropriates a tool invented in the service of imperialism and puts it into the hands of artists who mother. It is an ongoing political response to the reactionary politics of our times, which aims to broaden ideas about who-gets-to-write-what-where in and about the British landscape.

lizziep
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
Entangled Formations is a site-relational sound-walk that uses the Locosonic app and GPS technology to immerse listeners in the acoustic environment of Prague’s Stromovka Park and Holesovice, blending field recordings, ornithological interviews, and poetic reflections on local and migratory birds. This interactive experience creates a non-linear narrative linking the movements of birds and humans, highlighting the complex ecological and technological networks shared by multiple species.

Entangled Formations, a site-relational sound-walk, weaves together stories and movements of non-human inhabitants of Prague, entangling local, migratory, and visiting birds in a sonorous world that the audience can listen in on and delve into. Poetic reflections and facts on birds’ complex songs, lives and cognizance intermingle with extensive field recordings from Prague and interviews with ornithologist Petr Vorisek from the Czech Ornithological Society. Through the free sound-app Locosonic, listeners can walk around as they please in the landscape of Stromovka Park and Holesoviche and listen in on the carefully placed sounds. Walking around activates the audio through your body’s movements, the app, and the GPS of your phone. The listener’s routes intermingle with the ones sonified, creating a non-linear narrative of past, present, and future. The work encourages us to listen closely and relate more intimately to our immediate surroundings and to whom we share our spaces and lives with. We are all part of an entangled network of different species and entities. A delicate, intricate, vast weave including all living and non-living things. Sound as an omnipresent and physical, yet highly ephemeral phenomenon is potent for representing this complex mesh that surrounds us, but that we do not always see or take into account. GPS and internet are ubiquitous phenomena as well, a completely integrated part of our ecology in this post-technological era. Its patterns can look like the threads of neuro-patterns, but also like bird migration routes.

Excerpt

CC-BY-NC: Babak Fakhamzadeh

Credits

Hosted by: Prague Quadrenniale 2019

APA style reference

Brunborg Lie, A. (2019). Entangled Formation. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/entangled-formation/

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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